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Many businessmen came to like good old Dave. To honor Beck's election as the Teamsters' president, more than 600 Seattle business leaders gathered in the Olympic Hotel in December 1952. Co-chairmen were the publishers of the Seattle Times and of the Post-Intelligencer. Master of ceremonies was Brewer Emil Sick, chief beneficiary of the Beck-directed union war of the 1930s, when Beck permitted "not a single goddam drop" of Brewery Workers Union beer to enter the Northwest from California or the East. Cried Sick: "We respect you as a labor leader-the greatest...
There's No Place Like Home. From the windows in his office of the Teamsters' tan brick Seattle headquarters, Beck can point out across Taylor Avenue to five lots that he owns. Around the corner on Denny Way is the service station he co-owned with the Teamsters' Western Conference Chairman Frank Brewster (who recently sold his share, but not until after the station had sold the Teamsters at least $165,000 worth of service from 1950 to 1955). Near by are the two parking lots Beck bought for $28,000 and sold to the Teamsters...
...Futile" Talk. When Edward P. Morgan of the American Broadcasting Co. later went back to the budget area, the President seized the opportunity. "I am afraid you have opened up yourself for a little speech," he said. "This budget was not only made carefully, it was made intelligently. [It is] futile to talk about the U.S. keeping up the position it must keep up in the world and measurably sticking to the programs that have already been adopted in the U.S. ... and cut that budget severely...
...reputation for solving social and economic problems from Iraq to Puerto Rico, A.D.L. took on two new projects: ¶ It contracted with the International Cooperation Administration and the Philippine government to expand 300 credit-lending rural coops. Organized in 1952 to free small farmers from local Chinese moneylenders, the co-op system needs expert management help. ICA will pay $368,000 to cover A.D.L.'s U.S. expenses (including a $38,300 fee), while the Philippines pay the company's overseas expenses with counterpart pesos. In return, A.D.L. will set up 700 more coops, train a local staff...
...gonna keep 'em out in Dubuque, after they've seen Broadway? In the case of Dick Bissell, the answer is not easy. When his funny little 1953 novel, 7½ Cents, was turned by Director George Abbott & Co. into a hit musical. The Pajama Game, the big money and the taste of Broadway may have weakened Author Bissell's resistance to the charms of the old ladies from Dubuque. He now lives just up the road a piece from Times Square in Exurbia, Connecticut, with his wife and four children, gets along with two station wagons...