Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blood-gushing days of the 1930s, Frank Brewster, chief slugger for the Teamsters' Union on the West Coast, once walloped a cop in a picket-line brawl, was hauled off to headquarters, beaten almost to death -and arose from his knees to cut a swath of destruction with his manacled hands. But Frank Brewster decided he wanted to be more than a brick-fisted mug. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, From Goon to Gent...
...Frank Brewster, boss of the Western Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, shook his massive head at photographers and demanded that they refrain from taking pictures of him "with my finger in my nose." Then, jaw outthrust, Brewster turned to the Senate's McClellan committee and began reading a 40-minute statement elaborating upon the virtues of himself and his teamsters. "We," said Brewster, "support the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts and the Green Cross Safety Organization." By week's end it was clear that the Teamsters' Western charities went even further than that...
Under close questioning by Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy, Brewster admitted that on occasion he had helped himself to union funds to pay for personal expenses, specifically for the transportation, and "possibly" for the lodging, of a jockey and a trainer employed by his stables (Brewster's colt, Alderman, won Hollywood Park's $50,000 Sunset Handicap in 1951). But, Brewster insisted, he intended all the while to pay the union back-still does. The trouble is that he does not really know how much he owes, since-Brewster said-a janitor had mistaken the Western Conference...
With that testimony for a starter, the McClellan committee planned some new lines of questioning for Brewster this week...
After it finishes with Brewster, the McClellan committee plans to gear itself for Teamsters' President Dave Beck. Last week, at home in Seattle, Beck said he would decide whether or not to turn over his financial records to the committee after consulting with his newly retained lawyer: Pennsylvania's ex-Republican Senator James Duff.* But Committee Chairman John McClellan was having none of that. Beck, he said, must give the committee his records by this week or have them subpoenaed...