Word: daves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Untangling the knotted skein of corruption that spewed from the power reel of Teamster Boss Dave Beck, the select Senate committee investigating labor racketeering has turned up some devastating evidence. Even so, many a rank-and-file teamster could still tell himself that Good Old Dave had the boys' interests at heart, no matter what he did. Last week, as the hearings took on a new reel. Good Old Dave turned out to be Bad Old Dave for even the toughest teamster. Reason: testimony plainly showed that Dave 1) used the Teamsters, whenever it suited his money-hungry whims...
...week's hearings began, Dave himself sat down in the committee room, rolled out about 30 Fifth Amendment pleas in 32 minutes. But if Dave was not talking, his former business associates were -and what they had to say should have made Dave leap out of his expensive lizard-skin shoes. The talkers...
...lipped president of K & L Beverage Co., told how he and Beck sweet-talked St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch into giving Levine's company the sole distributorship of Budweiser in Seattle, and later in other areas of Beck's domain of Washington and Alaska. Then, said Levine, Dave Beck Jr. and a partner each put up $24,500 for a total of 49% interest in K & L, and Dave Jr. became vice president of the company. Two years later, Mrs. Dave Beck Sr. paid Levine $40,000 for a 40% interest in a K & L liquor-distributing organization...
...Dave Sr., continued Levine, tried to run the show. "He asked that his son be appointed president of the company. During the course of the discussion, Mr. Beck got quite angry, and I refused to go along with his demands. [But then] I received a call from my brother [saying that the Teamsters] refused to unload this particular truckload of whisky. So I mentioned it to Mr. Beck. And Mr. Beck says, 'Well, you see what I mean, Levine, you don't get along very good with the members of Local 174, and my family is stockholders...
Since another part of that interest entailed a loan-for which Beck was a guarantor-to Levine's company from Seattle's First National Bank, Levine saw what Dave meant. "I asked Mr. Beck, 'Well, you win, what do you want?' He said, 'I would like to have my son as president of the company and to have him have the complete say-so of drivers and of trucks.' So I agreed. That is what I had to do." Junior promptly became K & L's president, and next day the whisky truck...