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...Brewster admitted that he had signed checks totaling $6,663 to Dimny Lee Walton, a Los Angeles interior decorator, for ornamenting the Seattle home of the late John Sweeney, secretary-treasurer of the Western Conference. 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...
...West Coast Teamsters paid $94,000 for stock, e.g., in the Campbell Soup Co., for such deserving union officials as Frank Brewster and John Sweeney. Asked Kennedy: "Did the members of the union know that their money had been used to purchase the Campbell Soup stock for the various officials?" Replied Brewster: "I don't think we sent out a bulletin to that effect...
...said Mayor Peterson, had indeed come to him trying to get rid of Police Chief J. Bardell Purcell. Said Peterson: "Sometime in December of 1955, Clyde Crosby came to my office and stated that he had an official message, and 'I have to give it to you. Brewster, Sweeney [the late John Sweeney was secretary-treasurer of the West Coast Teamsters] and I have talked this over, and I have been instructed to tell you that if Purcell continues to be chief of police, we will have to find another candidate for mayor to support...
District Court Judge Sweeney, who presided at yesterday's hearing, accepted the testimony of Dr. Henry Merton Baker, and declared that Steyskal is paranoic...
Joseph C. Steyskal, a former Divinity School student, was held in $25,000 bail yesterday after he was arraigned in Federal Court on a charge of sending a letter threatening the life of President Pusey. Judge George C. Sweeney entered an innocent plea for Steyskal...