Word: dave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like Dave Beck doesn't just happen," mused Seattle's Episcopal Bishop Stephen Bayne last week...
Teamster Boss Dave Beck is proud to point out that he once was a Seattle laundry driver. By last week. as Beck made his third appearance before the Senate committee investigating labor racketeering. so much of his dirty laundry had been washed in public that the Teamsters were ready to wring him out of office. Because there is no clear-cut constitutional procedure for impeaching him now, the reformers looked toward September when the International Teamsters open a convention and hold an election in Miami Beach, Fla. First to volunteer to take a crack at Beck...
...Dave Beck Is on Seattle's Conscience...
Bishop Bayne was only one of thousands of Seattleites talking and thinking about Teamster Boss Dave Beck last week, as the nation's 20th largest city examined its conscience for having let Beck, a longtime resident, use Seattle as his oyster. To be sure, Beck used a bludgeon to crack open his oyster; it was the bludgeon of Teamster power. Equally true, Seattle at first accepted Beck with the greatest reluctance and mostly because it seemed a choice between him and the Red-led waterfront boys of Harry Bridges. But once Seattle did accept Beck, it went...
...Dave Beck, Seattle now knows-and long suspected-decided what Eastern beer the city could or could not drink. The chief editorial writer of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer turned up on the Teamster payroll as Dave Beck's biographer. When Beck was named international president of the Teamsters, Seattle's most influential men gathered at a dinner to cheer him on with a stout hurrah. Some alumni may have winced inwardly when Beck was named president of the University of Washington board of regents-but they did precious little protesting. Beck could walk into the eminently respectable First...