Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hang Beck," said one Irish-American teamster in Local 682 in St. Louis. In Local 524 in Yakima, Wash., the teamsters did just that, stringing up an effigy of Beck and setting it afire with cigarette lighters. "Beck's been talking about us paying for his defense fund," growled a Seattle taxi driver. "We been hanging around the cab stands all day trying to figure out how to slip some dough to the prosecution." Said a truck driver in Portland, Ore.: "It's high time that somebody finds out what's happening to the $5.50 a month...
...sure as Brewster could remember was not sure enough. The committee investigators had been able to trace from beginning to end only one check attributed by Local 174 to its "Special Fund." That check, for $4,000, was signed by Frank Brewster and had been cashed as a part down payment on his Palm Springs house...
...McClellan committee also found that the Teamsters had assigned some $60,000 to an "Unemployment Relief Fund" that did not exist in bank records. But Frank Brewster, who by week's end had admitted that as of Dec. 31, 1956 he owed his union $79,000 and some-odd dollars, was soon being questioned about some of the oddest of those dollars...
...however, argued that Insurance Man Newell had been much whang-banged in his dealings with Brewster. Reason: the Teamsters' Western Conference, under Frank Brewster, had made Newell the broker and consultant for its health and welfare fund. The annual profit to Newell...
...church, for the 458 members of the band. Each of the members will collect about $4,750 in cash. The rest of the land-sale proceeds will go to reimburse individuals for moving expenses and loss of their houses and permanent improvements, and to build up a trust fund to be administered by the Indian Affairs Branch in Ottawa for the Chippewas...