Word: daves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhilarating and heady experience for Dave Beck, a man who is fond of recalling that he had come up a hard and rocky road. He was born in Stockton, Calif, in 1894. His father, a Tennessee-born carpet cleaner named Lemuel Beck, brought his family to Seattle four years later, seeking a handhold on the better life. Lemuel Beck never found it. As his growing son soon discovered, he was the "world's worst businessman...
Machinist's Mate. Dave sold newspapers and Christmas trees, fished in houseboat-bordered Lake Union to piece out the family fortunes. His mother worked in a laundry. He never forgot waiting for her outside its steamy windows while she drudged on late at night. Eyeing the ornate houses of the rich on Capitol Hill, Dave resolved to be as good as any of them...
When redheaded Dave Beck took office, the gusty breath of all this excitement still hung in the air. The headsaws of lumber mills screamed along almost every lake and waterway. Loggers, fishermen, sailors and bums lounged by the hundreds beside the Skidroad's missions, hash joints and flophouses. Seattle's tough cops still took pride in using force sufficient to make an arrest, and dragged in many a prisoner by the heels...
...crazy for education, community clubs, home cooking, Sunday automobile trips to Snoqualmie Falls, and solid construction in municipal buildings. The core of its population was composed of thrifty, churchgoing Scandinavians who enjoyed the rain and yearned to own their own homes. It was a city which liked rose bushes. Dave Beck mirrored its conflicting personality. But for years, Seattle was indignant at its own reflection...
...Dave Beck-a man who has never been known to brawl himself-used violence as calculatingly as a general uses artillery. His teamsters could take care of themselves on almost any picket line. At one time he announced that hundreds of them were being trained in jujitsu and boxing for the sake of their health...