Word: fruehauf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TEAMSTER BOSS Dave Beck was indicted by federal grand jury with Roy Fruehauf, president of Fruehauf Trailer Co., and Burge Seymour, president of Associated Transport, Inc. Government charged that $200,000 loan from Fruehauf's and Seymour's companies violated Taft-Hartley Act. Maximum penalty: a year in jail and $10,000 fine...
...Cool $1,000,000. Landa's most notable fight, before Penn-Texas, was at Fruehauf Trailer Co. There he defended President Roy Fruehauf against a raid after brother Harvey Fruehauf sold a large block of stock to the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. Landa proceeded to raid the raider, made himself a cool $1,000,000 on Fruehauf stock during the fight. Landa welcomes allies from any quarter. During the Fruehauf fight, he negotiated a $1,500,000 loan from the then Teamster President Dave Beck to finance Fruehauf stock purchases...
...tough-talking Washington law partner of onetime U.S. Senators Millard Tydings and James Duff, Landa has been a key figure in the proxy battles for many top companies, e.g., Fruehauf Trailer, and the current dispute over S. H. Kress. Late in 1956, Landa joined in the Penn-Texas fight along with Robert Morse Jr., whose Fairbanks, Morse & Co. was threatened by a Silberstein takeover. With Morse bankrolling the fight, Landa led last year's Penn-Texas proxy crusade that elected two anti-Silberstein directors. Landa was also a key man in forcing last November's shake-up that...
...Fruehauf, wealthy truck-trailer manufacturer, who was offered a $1,500,0001oan from Teamster funds by Beck when a proxy battle threatened his company. Fruehauf showed appreciation by arranging a complicated $200,000 personal loan for Beck when the Teamster boss was being investigated by Internal Revenue agents. But Fruehauf drew the line at making a company loan because "I didn't think it was good business...
Alfons Landa, Washington attorney, who is a Fruehauf stockholder and director. So grateful was Landa to Beck for saving the firm and his investment that he volunteered to split his profits from a stock purchase made possible by Beck's $1,500,000 loan. Informed that Beck had refused. Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater chuckled: "This is the first time in all of these hearings that I have heard of Mr. Beck turning down anything...