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...Phony? As Keeshin (who plans to sell his 54% stock interest) stepped out, stocky, brown-haired William F. Drohan, new executive vice president, took over, said the company "will keep going...
Back to Horses. With most of this, truckers would agree. But Keeshin was trying to eat his cake and have it too. Back in the '30s, he had joined other truckers in getting federal rate regulation, squeezing out small, cut-rate truckers. It had helped so well that Keeshin had been able to buy the major interest in Chicago's enormously profitable race track, Sportsman's Park. Recently he had put up most of the $250,000 invested to start a new pro football team in Chicago...
...late years, Keeshin has found sports far more profitable and more fun than trucking. In the last two years, Keeshin says, the company has lost $230,000. Nor have union relations been happy. Three years ago Keeshin was charged with hiring a hoodlum to beat up unionists. But the charge was later dropped...
...this the unions (A.F. of L. Teamsters and an independent truck-drivers' union) replied: there is no trouble other than the independents' negotiations for a 21% increase. Snorted one unionist: "We don't know why Keeshin quit but it sure as hell had nothing to do with us. It's a phony...
...Keeshin agreed that "it may be worth nothing now that I've left. But I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery. I want to have some...