Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Albert L. Nickerson, 47, Socony Mobil Oil Co. president since 1955, will become chief executive officer next month when Board Chairman B. (for Benjamin) Brewster Jennings, 59, retires after 37 years with the company. Nickerson, a New Englander who looks like Cinemactor Randolph Scott, came up fast. Graduating from Harvard in 1933, he joined Socony as a service-station attendant, moved up to become a director within 13 years. Despite the current domestic oil glut, he has spoken out strongly for continued imports on the ground that high-cost U.S. producers will be unable to match soaring future demand...
...morally indignant over Hoffa's actions than they were thirsty. "We got a new slogan," rasped one Hoffaman: " 'Haggerty for integrity. Hoffa for president.' " Bill Lee, too, ran a losing battle, for among other things, he boasted the doubtful backing of Western Conference Teamster Boss Frank Brewster, a corruption-stained baron who had long fought Hoffa's climb to power. Didn't everybody know that Jimmy was going to sacrifice Brewster to the wolves before convention...
...joined an emergency committee that helped to bring 288 displaced German scholars to safety. "It was the most satisfying experience I ever had," he says. During the same period, on a train to a student conference in New Orleans, he met a pretty Mount Holyoke graduate named Janet Brewster. They were married...
Behind closed doors, the meeting droned on for more than three hours. Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster (who was sentenced to a year in prison last month for contempt of Congress), long a Hoffa enemy, wanted to ram through an endorsement of Hoffa. Dave Beck, chins-deep in trouble,* was absent, but the word was around that what little power he has left will be with Hoffa in the hope that President Hoffa would help to make Beck president emeritus (at $50,000 a year...
...problem was best illustrated by the fouled sparkplugs brought along by the four biggest of them: bellowing Dave Beck, newly harassed (he cried) by some absurd vendetta of the income tax people; Minneapolis Teamster Vice President Sidney L. Brennan, convicted of accepting a bribe; Western Conference Chair man Frank Brewster, convicted of contempt of Congress; and, with topmost billing in the news, James Riddle Hoffa, chairman of the Central States Conference of Teamsters, struggling to keep his tail gate from the teeth...