Word: beeson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From his seat in the Senate Labor Committee hearing room, pudgy Albert C. (for Cummins) Beeson arose, puffed out his chest and, in carefully rehearsed tones, announced: "We are quibbling while Rome burns." He was wrong; the smoke came from some of Beeson's burning bridges...
...Republican appointee to the National Labor Relations Board, Beeson came to Washington with a long and respected record as a company representative in labor-management relations. But with the very first question asked him in committee hearings, Beeson showed that his wisdom was no burden on his tongue. Yes, said Beeson, he had once lectured on economics at Rutgers. That answer would have sufficed, but Beeson rambled on: "I was frankly there to try to explain the American enterprise system from the businessman's viewpoint." Asked the C.I.O.'s James Carey, a later witness: Would not Beeson also...
...first time since the National Labor Relations Board was formed in 1935, the board has a majority of Republican appointees. Last week President Eisenhower named Missouri-born Republican Albert C. Beeson. 47. industrial relations director of the Food Machinery & Chemical Corp.. San Jose, Calif., as the board's fifth member (he is Ike's third appointment...
...Beeson. who succeeds resigned Board Member Paul L. Styles in the null year job, is a lecturer on industrial management at Stanford University, and onetime president of the California Personnel Management Association. The board, weighted almost throughout its history on the side of labor, is now one which favors a minimum of government interference in business and labor relations, and is much more inclined to judge each case on its own merits. Said Beeson: "Regardless of what the members feel personally, they should . . . interpret the [Taft-Hartley] Act fairly...
Provocation. In Seattle, bruised Pedestrian Everett D. Beeson admitted to police that he should never have yelled at the motorist who had almost bumped him, "Why don't you go ahead...