Word: sayen
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...negotiations with United Air Lines this year, the pilots got fed up with Behncke's dragging, nagging way of doing things. They finally bypassed him as bargainer, picked Union Vice President Clarence Sayen, the 32-year-old pilot who shortly before had negotiated a contract with Pan American World Airways. Said one union member: "We're sick and tired of Behncke's thousand-word telegrams giving the world 24 hours to get out." Behncke was furious. He fired Sayen and two other union officials. But the executive board countermanded the orders...
...week A.L.P.A.'s executive board had enough. In a session that broke up at dawn, the union's directors kicked Behncke out of the presidency, retired him on a pension of $15,000 a year, equal to his salary as president. A.L.P.A.'s new president: Clarence Sayen. Cried ex-President Behncke, who threatened to take the whole matter to court: "Illegal Putsch...