Word: dave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Teamsters President Dave Beck appeared before the McClellan Committee last March, he took the Fifth Amendment on questions about his misuse of union funds, shrilly boasted that he would prove his innocence in a court of law. He will soon have his chance: last week in Tacoma, Wash. a federal grand jury charged Beck* with evading $184,000 in income taxes for 1951, 1952, 1953. Added to the $56,000 for 1950 charged in another indictment last May. this makes Beck...
After word of the new indictment reached turnip-shaped Dave Beck in Los Angeles, where he was meeting with the Teamsters executive board, he called a press conference, passed the charges off as something that has happened to many a good, red-blooded American. Said Beck: "I've joined the army of hundreds of thousands all over the country that have been indicted for income taxes. It's happening every day all over America." Anyhow, his troubles were all the fault of the meddlesome U.S. Congress-which, cried Dave, has "one or more" former convicts among its members...
...Also indicted: Dave Beck Jr.; Mrs. Dave Beck Sr.'s cousin, Norman Gessert; Teamsters Auditor Fred Verschueren; Beck's pal and personal financier, Chicago Labor-Relations Consultant Nathan Shefferman; and Shefferman's son, Shelton...
...these powerful barons of transportation were charges by the Ethical Practices Committee of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. that might get their whole brotherhood thrown out of the big union. The heart of their 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...
...after Davis' story ran in the Post (circ. 203,743), Houston Justice of the Peace Dave Thompson summoned a court of inquiry and decided that the only way to halt Houston's armaments race was by "strict enforcement" of the law requiring gun buyers to show a certificate. Justice Thompson's next step: to issue arrest warrants for six Houston gun dealers and for Reporter Davis, who had already got rid of his pistol and protested that he wouldn't own one at any price-even...