Word: dave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months in 1957 the U.S. watched with fascination and with shock as a Senate investigating committee poked into labor's darkest corners. The faces on the television screen were scarcely those of labor leaders concerned with the betterment of the workingman. Instead, they were suety Dave Beck, president of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters, angrily shrilling the Fifth Amendment and standing revealed as a man who would enrich himself at the expense of an old friend's widow. And last week there was Beck's heir apparent, Teamsters' Central Conference Boss Jimmy Hoffa...
...Hoffa," testified Hickey, "interceded for Mr. Dio. [Mr. Dio] impressed Mr. Hoffa no end." At a high-level meeting with Dio, Hickey and Dave Beck, Hoffa tried to win Beck's agreement to sweep Dio into the Teamsters Union with a Dio-controlled taxicab local, but, said Hickey, A.F.L. Boss George Meany (now president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.) killed the move. In the end Hickey discovered that Hoffa had sneaked Teamster charters through to Dio anyway. Announced Hickey: he will run for the international presidency against Hoffa late next month. Asked John McClellan: "If you should be elected, would...
...Associated Press last week filed a party story that raised eyebrows from Washington, D.C. to Washington State. Under a Greenwich. Conn, dateline, A.P. reported: "Dave Beck Sr. and Dave Beck Jr., labor leaders under fire of the Senate labor rackets committee, were guests at a party which also was attended by Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel for the rackets committee, it was confirmed here today." The A.P. went on to identify "Mrs. Dave Beck Jr." as one of the guests at the party, which was given by Mr. and Mrs. George Skakel Jr. "in honor of Mrs. Kennedy...
When the story reached A.P.'s Seattle bureau, a wire-service man quickly knocked it down by establishing that 1) Dave Sr. had spent the weekend in Seattle, 2) Dave Jr. is still unmarried. In Washington, Bob Kennedy said he had not been at the Skakels'. In Manhattan, an A.P. man checked a picture taken at the party and realized that the man identified as Dave Jr. was not the Teamster boss's son. But Connecticut's Stamford Advocate (circ. 24,674), which originated the story, insisted that George Skakel had "solemnly confirmed" that the Becks...
Since the socially impeccable Mrs. Skakel had told the Advocate about the Becks, invited the paper to take pictures, and had helped the Advocate's free-lance photographer set up the shot of the guest she introduced as Dave Jr. (father had supposedly left), the Advocate cut loose with an acid apology on Page One. In an open letter to the Becks, Managing Editor E. R. McCullough explained: "Frankly, we believed the Skakels on Saturday night and Monday morning, and we suppose we've got to go along with their latest story . . . If you have any thoughts...