Word: bremerton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army ruled last week that Franklin Roosevelt's Bremerton speech (TIME, Aug. 21), was a political address, and forthwith granted a Socialist Party request for equal radio time to speak to the soldiers overseas. Six hours later the War Department reversed the decision, in a statement that sounded as if heads had rolled all over the Pentagon Building. On thinking it over, the Department now held that the President's broadcast was a "nonpolitical report...
...speech, in which his face had seemed gaunt and slack, his eyes and cheeks hollow. They had not been able to tell whether bad lighting or deep fatigue was responsible. They had noted that in pictures shot in Hawaiian sunshine, and again, beneath a cruiser's guns at Bremerton, he seemed healthier, more alert, though thinner of face. Therefore, with curiosity and concern, they filed in for the first post-Pacific press conference...
Last week the President returned to the U.S. mainland, landing at the teeming Bremerton Navy Yard, across Puget Sound from Seattle. The President reported to the nation over the radio, speaking from the bow of a destroyer, against a backdrop of 8,000 Bremerton workers and sailors. He gave them a rambling, folksy account of his voyage. He told them that Japan "cannot be trusted," but in the speech's 3,500 words there was but an incidental reference to the European...
Travels of a Marine. The Smiths have been travelers, like all Marines: they lived in Bremerton, Seattle, Manila, Cavite, Shanghai, Puerta Plata, Norfolk, Newport, Port-au-Prince, Quantico, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Long Beach, San Francisco, Washington, San Diego. In one two-year stretch they moved 14 times...
Drastic as it sounded, employers were skeptical about how much good WMC's order would do. It did not tell workers where they should go, if & when the shipyards release them. And it did not apply to the Bremerton Navy Yard or to Henry Kaiser's prize operation at Vancouver, Wash. (now busy turning out aircraft carriers), which is outside the Puget Sound area. Since WMC cannot change the hard fact that WLB has allowed shipyard wages to be stabilized at a higher level than most other war wages (including aircraft), the best bet was that most...