Word: becks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost alone among big U.S. corporations, Montgomery Ward fought off unions with unrelenting vigor. But when Louis Wolfson launched his attempt to take over the company, James R. Hoffa, rough, tough vice president of Dave Beck's A.F.L. Teamsters' Union, saw an opportunity to tighten the screws on aging Ward President Sewell Avery, who is desperately trying to hold onto control...
Last week in Chicago, Sewell Avery capitulated. As Hoffa looked on, Avery and Teamster President Dave Beck signed the first companywide union contract in Ward's history. When the bitter moment arrived, Sewell Avery, who once forced Franklin Roosevelt to order him carried out of his own office rather than deal with a union, acted as though it was not so hard to take after all. As photographers swarmed into his office, Avery playfully rubbed Beck's bald head, looked pleased as Punch when the union leader said: "You've got more hair than I have...
...Dartmouth undergraduate) and France's Adrien Duvillard. Dartmouth Alumni Ralph Miller and Brooks Dodge finished fifth and seventh, and to fill out the eight-man U.S. Olympic team, the committee had to reach far back into the pack. Most notable scoring casualty: Dartmouth's Bill Beck, best on the U.S. squad in the 1952 Olympics, who was edged out by Stowe's Marvin Moriarity...
Although the committee's choices were a matter of routine (based on scores made at Stowe and at Franconia, N.H. the week before), Dodge and Miller filed a loud demurrer when Fellow Alumnus Beck failed to make the team. In the end, Beck was chosen as an alternate. Skiing being what it is, the odds are that between now and next winter one of his teammates will plow into a tree. He still has a good chance of racing at the Olympics...
UNION INVASION of the business world by using pension funds to buy into companies is progressing. A.F.L.'s International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has just paid out $1,920,000 for 16,000 shares and control of the American Standard Life Insurance Co., and Dave Beck's Teamsters, who invested $1,500,000 in Fruehauf Trailer Co., then bought $1,000,000 worth of Montgomery Ward stock, now plans to spend still another million for 12,100 more shares of Ward stock...