Word: daves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Mikkola must fill one important position before the first meet. In the quarter mile relay veterans Harvey Thayer, Al Ruby, and Captain Dave Hamblett will fill three spots in the quartet, but who will be the fourth man is still a big question. Main contenders for this position are Dave Gilbert, Jerry Simpson, Bert Brown, and Bill Goldberg. In the two mile relay, Jim Downey, Dick Welch, George Williams, and either Ardon Albee or John Cogan should be on the starting line December...
...strong man that Dave Beck has made his mark. What disturbs many a more democratically minded unionist is that Beck's benevolent but monopolistic dictatorship might eventually stifle competition, corrupt his own unions, stagnate business, and ruin the consumer...
...nonstrikers and closed the plant up tight as a coffin. Hearst set his writers to beating out virulently anti-Beck radio scripts. General Clarance B. Blethen, corpulent publisher of the Seattle Times, indignantly penned an editorial which ended with the ringing line: "How do you like the look of Dave Beck's gun? The shame...
...unions. During World War II the teamsters' treasury was tapped to buy football uniforms for the 146th Field Artillery at Fort Lewis. Teamsters recorded the farewell messages of 60,000 soldiers who passed through the Seattle Port of Embarkation and sent the records to their families. Dave Beck ran the state of Washington's third war bond drive and exceeded the quota by $30 million...
...union men. Some of his own minions grumble at his repetitious speeches, his peremptory commands. Said one teamster, of a campaign Beck waged to ingratiate himself with eastern Washington farmers: "For a while, everybody in the Teamsters' Hall had to have an apple in his mouth. Next year Dave had trouble organizing the apple sheds and you were canned if they found a seed in your pocket...