Word: dave
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...Brewster said that he and Teamsters' International President Dave Beck were partners in a service-station across the street from the union's Seattle headquarters. From 1950 to 1955, according to McClellan committee evidence, Teamsters' units gave the Brewster-Beck service station at least $165.000 worth of business...
...time Frank Brewster had thankfully left the hearing room, the McClellan committee was already gearing itself for an even more important Teamster: President Dave Beck, who was scheduled to show up this week (Counsel Kennedy promised to prove that Beck had taken at least $270,000 from the Western Teamsters). But although he would soon be smothered by Beck headlines. Frank Brewster would not soon be forgotten. The meaning of his testimony was perhaps best phrased by Republican Committee Member Karl Mundt of South Dakota. Amid all the big moneymaking of the Teamsters' leaders, asked Mundt, where did "John...
Indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington last week: James Riddle Hoffa, 44, a vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, boss of the teamsters' powerful Central Conference, with headquarters in Detroit, and challenger to I.B.T. President Dave Beck. The charges, all based on Hoffa's offer of $18,000 and payment of $3,000 for documents filched from the McClellan committee files (TIME, March 25): 1) bribery, with a possible penalty of three years' imprisonment and a fine of three times the bribe total; 2) conspiracy, five years and $10,000; 3) obstruction...
...years in the Army during and after World War I, and returned to Seattle to become recording secretary of the Teamsters' Local 174 in 1921. His salary: $2 a month. During those early years, he was senior to and far overshadowed a turnip-shaped young Seattle Teamster named Dave Beck. "Frank had the interests of the working stiff at heart," recalls a Teamster veteran. "He'd put his neck on the line any time to sign up a new member, while Dave was making speeches at union meetings." But in 1925, when the Teamsters held their national convention...
...Tough?" Dave Beck issued directives, made statements, planned strategy, and, without suffering a single bruise on his pudgy body, became chairman of the Teamsters' Western Conference. Frank Brewster was his enforcer - and he was a good one. Arrested three times for picket-line brawling, Brewster once landed his mighty right hand on a policeman. Another cop remembers what happened after Brewster was taken to headquarters: "We stopped the elevator between the first and second floors and we worked him over. I've never seen a guy get such a beating. Finally he slumped down on his knees...