Word: dale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evan R. Dale, 38, is a chunky labor leader who has shouldered his way to the top of the A.F.L.'s Southern Illinois Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers Union. He likes to wear wide-brimmed hats, collect expensive shotguns, throw parties at his hunting lodge. He also likes to mix in politics; in 1952 he was a labor consultant to the Republican National Committee...
Labor Boss Dale's biggest chance to show his muscle came in 1951 after Joseph V. Moreschi, president of the hod carriers union, made Dale the union spokesman for a pool of 38,000 construction laborers building power plants at Joppa, Ill. and Shawnee, Ky. for AEC's A-bomb plant near Paducah, Ky. Teaming up with James Bateman, 63, who ruled the Joppa plant's pipe fitters, Dale lost no time in calling on the Joppa plant's major contractor, Ebasco Services Inc., a subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share Co. Pointing out that...
...April 1953 a Federal grand jury, spurred on by a St. Louis Post-Dispatch expose of labor racketeering, indicted Dale and Bateman and 13 other A.F.L...
Last week, Labor Bosses Dale and Bateman, red-faced and perspiring, stood up before U.S. Federal Court Judge Fred L. Wham for sentencing. Said Judge Wham: "Dale has been disloyal to the men he represented . . . He has a faculty for instilling fear of physical violence in people. He has never failed to profit in full from use of his abilities in this line." Then Judge Wham handed down the sentences: for Dale, 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine; for Bateman a $2,000 fine and probation for five years...
...continuing high standard, he set up a self-perpetuating board of trustees which examines all gift horses with a dentist's doubtful eye. Since Mellon's death in 1937, vast bequests from Samuel Kress and Joseph Widener (old masters), Lessing Rosenwald (prints and drawings) and Chester Dale (old masters and modern French paintings) have swelled the collection. It now numbers 1,721 paintings, 1,696 sculptures (mostly small), 21,451 prints and drawings, 22,000 watercolor renderings and photographs of American art objects (made under WPA auspices), 815 objects of decorative art, and 1,436 photographs from Alfred...