Word: dave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Beck, the Teamsters have increased their membership to 1,400,000 and their bankroll to more than $35 million. The union's 850 locals include brewery and dairy workers, cannery employees, nutmeat and potato-chip salesmen. "Dave," says another labor leader, "will take anybody he can get his hands on. A Teamster' to him is anybody who sleeps on a bed with movable casters...
...according to McClellan committee testimony) about $500,000 to defeat a right-to-work referendum in Washington State last year. With the notable exception of Washington's ex-Republican Governor Arthur Langlie (who began ringing alarms on Beck 20 years ago), most successful Northwestern politicians are beholden to Dave Beck. In 1946 Washington's Democratic Governor Mon Wallgren appointed Beck to the board of regents of the University of Washington. And in 1950, Dave Beck, who had never completed high school, became president of the board...
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...
...Real estate is my dish," blares Dave Beck, who has, since the Internal Revenue Bureau began investigating his finances, cashed in at least $900,000 in real-estate holdings. "Sure, I've made money with it. But that's also part of the way Dave Beck has increased the assets of the international union by $9,000,000 since he became president." In an analytic mood, an old Beck associate says: "When Dave talks about money, it's like some other guy talking about a beautiful broad -he gets a gleam in his eye. The only pinup...
...ready to tend the bar, embellished with a union label and well stocked both in spirits and in soft drinks for Teetotaler Beck. Also on the underground level is a ballroom, complete with blond electric organ, a spinet piano, and a carefully illuminated portrait of the Teamsters' President Dave Beck...