Word: bowen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That afternoon the plant opened up again as if nothing had happened. Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen, who did a swell job restoring morale at Federal Shipbuilding, was in charge. His first step was to tell the workers that as long as the Navy was there they might not get even the 3?-an-hour nightwork bonus WLB had approved. The workers took this in good part. Michael Patrakian, the young strike leader, said: "We are all damn glad it happened. We are all sailors now. We wanted the Navy to take over [instead of an unfair management]. We know...
Colonel Henry Bowen, the founder of the family fortune, was a half-crazy, atheistic, marauding Welsh adventurer who abandoned his Puritan wife to take part in Cromwell's invasion of Ireland...
When the English invaders divvied up the best Irish lands, Henry settled down on his share, a small estate in the northern part of County Cork. There he established the Bowen dynasty which for 250 years lived defensively on its ingrown clannishness. Those were years of an "intense, centripetal life . . . isolated by something very much more lasting than the physical facts of space...
...Bowens were immured by the "affair of origin"-by their separateness from the native Catholic Irish who islanded their existence. Outside Bowen's Court rolled the violent bloody history of Ireland. The Bowens looked the other way. "The structure of the great Anglo-Irish society was raised over a country in martyrdom. To enjoy prosperity" (and enjoy it most of the Bowens did) "one had to exclude feeling, or keep it within the prescribed bounds...
Aliens Entirely. But Ireland took its revenge on the alien Bowens. It was a revenge as formless and pervasive as a fog from the bogs. In their isolation the Bowens fell to fighting each other like spiders in a bottle. They fought about careers, buried treasure, inheritances, but mostly about the land. Tired of it all, Elizabeth's father deserted the land, from which the family had drawn its strength to survive. He became a city lawyer. Bowen's Court fell into disuse...