Word: daves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Booster. Delegates and newsmen who had never seen Dave Beck before were a little startled, not only by his mild and self-effacing performance, but by his personal appearance. His quiet, expensive clothes, his full-toothed smile, his bland face, his high-pitched, almost boyish voice, gave him the aura of a super-Rotarian booster right out of Main Street. But his eyes-cold, blue and direct-explained him more fully...
They also explained his lack of interest in the machinations of the A.F.L.'s jealous, bumbling, convention-bound rulers. In the 22 years since he climbed down from a laundry truck to become an organizer for the teamsters, Dave Beck had never begged for crumbs at the table of the A.F.L. hierarchy. He had become a Big Man despite them, by virtue of his own ambition, ability and ruthlessness...
...Dave Beck not only dominates western labor; he dominates great chunks of business as well. He sees himself as a kind of self-appointed price-wage czar. With deadpan audacity he has used his power to prevent cutthroat competition, to punish price cutters, and to help firms with teamster contracts make a safe margin of profit...
...some businessmen resent his interference, fear and respect prevent outcries. The sound of the name Dave Beck still touches the nerve centers of thousands with the impact of a fist on bone. But the great majority of employers think he is wonderful and applaud like happy seals when he speaks at the Chamber of Commerce...
With a Capital E. They have their reasons. Beck abhors strikes and stands for free enterprise with a capital E-as long as it is run Dave Beck's way. He is an able, honest, startlingly frank man-and in recent years he has become startlingly reasonable. He is full of the kind of civic pride which rich industrialists had once reserved for themselves; he wants his minions to prosper. His word and his contracts are as good as gold. He not only gets pork chops for his unions but disciplines them with an iron hand...