Word: chester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning off tiny Bird Island in the Leeward Archipelago Franklin Roosevelt accomplished the one thing still necessary to make his trip a complete success. At 7:15 a. m. after an early breakfast the Indianapolis and Chester anchored and while the destroyer Phelps sped north with pouches of Presidential mail, four small boats were lowered and Franklin Roosevelt in one of them spent three hours catching 34 fish, chiefly pompano and barracuda...
...When a tanker manned by strikebreaking seamen put in at the Pew family's big Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. yards in Chester, Pa., Sun members of the Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers refused to service it, struck. Union officials improved the occasion by demanding more pay, a 36-hour week, a closed shop. On the fourth morning some 1,500 strikebreakers lined up, marched toward the yards. Picketers met them with fists, bricks, clubs, lead pipes. Police rushed in with tear gas, managed to separate the rioters for a few minutes. On the second clash, five fire engines...
...Industry must accept its responsibility for the national welfare as being an even higher duty than the successful operation of private business," keynoted Colby Mitchell Chester, chairman of General Foods and NAM's present president...
Other men who scored points for the Yardlings follow: Fred Griffen in the 50-yard free style, Bill Rines and Henry Kaplan in the 100-yard breast stroke, Henry Curwen in the 100 and 200-yard free style, Henry Southwick in the 100-yard back stroke, and Chester Sagenkhan in the dive...
...Committee's decision is final, and it appears likely at the present time that it will be permanent. The Committee consists of Mr. Bingham, chairman; A. Chester Hanford, Dean of the College; Chester N. Greenough, professor of English: and Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene as faculty members: William Edmunds, George Whitney, and Charles C. Buell...