Word: algic
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...mile voyage to Montevideo, Uruguay, worn Captain Gainard came down with influenza. He was ill in his bunk in that port when informed that another sit-down strike had taken place. In sympathy with a local longshoremen's strike, the Algic's crew refused to turn the winches. Too weak to handle the situation himself, Captain Gainard put through a 5,000-mile telephone call to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission in Washington. Boss Kennedy instantly sent off a message authorizing the captain to put the ringleaders in irons...
...Santos three of the crew deserted and the Algic went on to Victoria, Brazil, without them. Denied shore-leave, four more men went over the side in the darkness, attempted to row to shore in a clumsy native dugout, capsized it within 150 feet, drowned Able Seaman Howell Gill of Savannah, Ga. On the return trip the Algic again put in at Jacksonville and there Stormy Petrel J. Hartley deserted and escaped. Last week the Algic docked in Baltimore, its 13,000 harassed miles the subject of a brief inquiry by the Bureau of Marine Inspection & Navigation. A three...
Prompt to support its members, the National Maritime Union gave the crew's story, charged that Captain Gainard had spun a yarn to the .Washington Post's staff correspondent, Edward T. Folliard, who had a frontpage, five-column scoop on the Algic's, horrific trip. Alleging that Correspondent Folliard was inspired by the Maritime Commission, the N. M. U. statement said: "The crew, organized 100% in the N. M. U. conducted itself in the disciplined and orderly fashion that has made the N. M. U. the choice of the overwhelming proportion of the men who go down...
Meantime, the Algic case made a focal point of the "order and discipline" of the U. S. Merchant Marine. Chairman Kennedy last week revealed that his department had been deluged with complaints from travelers on U. S. ships. Samples: that stewards wake lone, pretty females with "Hi, Babe, get up . . . time for breakfast"; introduce male passengers to comely women aboard; address guests at breakfast, "Well, Buddy, what'll it be this morning"; even lay hands on young women in the corridors of ships. Of mutiny on the Algic, Chairman Kennedy remarked succintly, "I think it is scandalous...
...Algic-a fanciful combination of the words Allegheny and Atlantic...