Word: dave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appetizer, McClellan's committee heard about the Teamsters' free and easy ways with union funds. The Teamsters' Western Boss Frank Brewster, who came to power as Dave Beck's first lieutenant (and followed Beck as chairman of the union's Western Conference), was described as having ordered a $3,900 Teamster loan to a Seattle racketeer for opening a tavern and gambling joint in Spokane...
Brewster was also identified as having okayed a $17,000 union loan to help get another Seattle gambler out from under a federal tax lien. Dave Beck himself, it was said, ordered a $30,000 loan to finance a saloon operated by a University of Washington classmate of Dave Beck Jr. in a building owned by Teamsters' President Beck...
...Seattle. Teamster Boss Dave Beck's home town, the contrast in newspaper coverage was even more pronounced. The Seattle Times (circ. 208,224), though long chary of offending Baron Beck, had assigned Pulitzer Prizewinning Reporter Ed Guthman to ferret out the story as soon as it learned of the Oregonian expose last year. Last week it red-bannered the Washington hearings and played local angles to the hilt. Hearst's Post-Intelligencer (circ. 190,789), on the other hand, ran only routine service stories on the Senate investigation. still had not given the story top Page One play...
...figure-skating title last week, any splay-ankled tyro could plainly see that pert Carol Heiss was a solid bet to keep the championship in the U.S. In addition, the flashiest male who showed up for the meet at the posh Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs was another American. Dave Jenkins, 20, the acrobatic kid brother of Hayes Alan Jenkins, now turned pro, who had won the title four years running...
...Carol Heiss and Dave Jenkins are likely to keep their titles for years to come. Jenkins, a junior at Colorado College, is getting over the handicap of being the brother of Superstar Hayes Alan Jenkins. As for Carol, a high-school junior from Ozone Park, N.Y., Coach Pierre Brunet makes a flat prediction: "She is still ascending. She should be at her best for the 1960 Olympics...