Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under snickersnee-sharp questions from Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy (and duller ones from politically minded committee members, e.g., "Do you really feel that this is within the boundaries of basic Americanism . . .?"), Brewster squirmed about a $99,999 bank roll listed by his own Seattle Local 174 under "Special Fund...
Said Brewster: "That was for political funds." Said Kennedy: "Well, Mr. Brewster, we have checked and found that there is no such fund as a 'Local 174 Special Fund' in the bank. It does not exist...
...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...
...Included were such items as an imported crystal chandelier ($174) and foam-rubber padding ($382). Brewster insisted that Sweeney's estate would pay for anything Sweeney had owed the union. How? Out of the $50,000 that the Teamsters' rank and file had since forked over, by special assessment, to Sweeney's widow...
...grants were determined by the size of student bodies, relative investments of the schools in research and teaching departments, special contributions toward advancement of the medical profession, and various other factors...