Word: widower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Beck had been using their dues payments like a business tycoon spurred Dave-must-go movements in half a dozen key Teamster locals before Beck finally took the hint. The ugly evidence that he could stoop even to profiting on the sale of real-estate equities to the widow of Union Official Ray Leheny (TIME, May 20) turned his retirement into a sooner-the-better situation (although Beck, protesting innocence in that, says that he has since sent the widow a check). But credit was due also to A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany...
...very attractive lady" was visiting. McClellan went, reluctantly-and then he saw the lady. "I'll never forget," says McClellan. "She came down the steps of the house wearing a picture blue hat and a blue dress, a beautiful lady in blue." The lady in blue was a widow from North Carolina, Norma Myers Cheatham. She is now Norma Myers McClellan...
...Jack Mead and a Mrs. A. J. Eisenhower. Historian (Lincoln Finds a General) Kenneth P. Williams was traced to Bloomington. Ind. by the Atlanta Constitution, and allowed that "it would have been rather unjust to replace Lee for that one battle." Mrs. Robert E. Lee III, identified as "the widow of the Generals grandson," confided to the Washington Post and Times Herald that the Ike-Monty verdict was "disgusting...
...reel. Good Old Dave turned out to be Bad Old Dave for even the toughest teamster. Reason: testimony plainly showed that Dave 1) used the Teamsters, whenever it suited his money-hungry whims, as a useful adjunct to Dave Beck's business enterprises, and 2) cheated the widow of an honored union official in his relentless pursuit of a few easy bucks...
Within this interlocking framework, by Hedlund's painful testimony, Beck pulled his worst on a Teamster's widow. Ray Leheney was a union official and longtime friend of Beck. After Leheney's death, Beck first collected nearly $80,000 in assessments and contributions from union members to form the Ray Leheney Memorial Fund for the benefit of Mrs. Leheney. Then, as the trustee of the Teamster funds, he "loaned" the National Mortgage Co. $71,407, with which he and Hedlund bought contracts at a discount. After some $10,000 in payments had been made on the principal...