Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the Brewster-Newell horse partnership broke up in 1955, Newell, who had put in most of the money, emerged with a $40,000 loss. Brewster, who insisted that sometimes he really walked the horses, somehow came out with a $44,000 profit. The Brewster-Newell accounts still have not been finally settled because of an argument about the disposition of a mare named Whang Bang. Asked Committee Chairman John McClellan: "Is this a kind of whang-bang transaction?" Replied Frank Brewster: "She was a whang-bang mare. She won 40,000-some dollars...
...however, argued that Insurance Man Newell had been much whang-banged in his dealings with Brewster. Reason: the Teamsters' Western Conference, under Frank Brewster, had made Newell the broker and consultant for its health and welfare fund. The annual profit to Newell...
Throughout the week, the McClellan Committee fricasseed Frank Brewster in the gravy of the Western Teamsters' finances. Items...
...Brewster admitted that he had signed checks totaling $6,663 to Dimny Lee Walton, a Los Angeles interior decorator, for ornamenting the Seattle home of the late John Sweeney, secretary-treasurer of the Western Conference. Included were such items as an imported crystal chandelier ($174) and foam-rubber padding ($382). Brewster insisted that Sweeney's estate would pay for anything Sweeney had owed the union. How? Out of the $50,000 that the Teamsters' rank and file had since forked over, by special assessment, to Sweeney's widow...
...Brewster was asked if he ever had his suits tailor-made. He harked back to the days even before he became a leader of the Teamsters' West Coast goon squad and said: "When I drove a team once, I saved up for a whole year and got a tailor-made suit, and I was the happiest man in town." Since then he was made even happier. The committee showed that a $400 Teamsters' check had been made out to a Seattle tailor for a Brewster suit in 1954. Brewster said it was a Christmas gift from grateful unionists...