Word: becks
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Other Crimson runners on whom McCurdy is depending include Roland San Soucie, Don French, Frank Nahigian, Bill Engs and Paul Beck. Maguire, first against Brown, will run, but a bad cold is expected to keep him out of the scoring...
Fourth place went to the Terriers' Thakery. Don French and Frank Nahigian took fifth and sixth for the Crimson, followed by Bill Smith of BU, Bill Engs and Paul Beck of the Crimson, and Beck-with of the Terriers...
Whatever Hutcheson was up to, his walkout had an important result. It led to the election to the executive council of Dave Beck, tough, ambitious boss of the 1,400,000-strong International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers. When ist Vice President Bill Hutcheson departed, the twelve other v.p.s each moved up a notch, leaving a vacancy at the bottom. As head of the biggest A.F.L. union, Beck was an obvious choice. But the machinists' Al Hayes had been promised the next opening. Upshot: compromise. Beck became the 13th vice president, and Hayes' hopes were kept...
...Beck's election was a sign of his power rather than of his popularity. Few top A.F.L. officials like him, and even fewer trust him. But, at 59, he is one of the half-dozen most powerful labor bosses in the nation, and he is still on the climb. Beck's enemies insist that his goal is nothing less than a single, giant labor federation, with himself as its boss. Since he succeeded Dan Tobin as Teamster president last year, Beck has kept on the offensive, recruiting and raiding uninhibitedly. Last week he predicted a teamsters' membership...
Private talks between Beck and John L. Lewis in recent months fueled rumors that Beck might become part of the Phantom Phederation. Beck's election to the council last week, and his public protestations of loyalty to the A.F.L., took the wind out of such stories. But nobody believed that the title of 13th vice president would take the wind out of Dave Beck's full-rigged ambition...