Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like the admiral of an enemy fleet who had achieved a surprise, catching them while the U. S. Fleet was theoretically in California ports. Time-eight days-was the essence of the problem. If the Island's defense force of small vessels, 400 planes, 20,000 soldiers and coast defense guns, all concentrated on Oahu, could hold off the attackers for eight days, the U. S. Fleet would have time to arrive from the continent. If the attackers could land troops, capture the island of Oahu and the great naval station of Pearl Harbor in less than eight days...
...Workers Union called a strike in four of Stockton's largest canneries, demanding better pay, shorter hours. The Agricultural Workers Union belongs to the A.F. of L. but the strike was ordered by Stockton's Central Labor Council which is controlled by the I.L.A. On the Pacific Coast, however, Joseph P. Ryan has no control over I.L.A. Its leadership there belongs to Harry Bridges who is an ally of the C.I.O. Thus the Stockton strike was an attempt of Radical Harry Bridges to extend his labor leadership back from San Francisco's waterfront. At Stockton his sphere...
Considered one of the finest examples of African art, the fourteenth century bronze portrait of a princess of Benin, fabulous and now virtually extinct small nation of the West African slave coast, was presented to the Fogg Museum by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York City...
...prior, 1,000 miles at sea, where the slow Atlantic groundswell sweeps across the edge of the Grand Banks, the Coast Guard cutter Mendota slid to a stop, engines dead, church pennant at masthead, to pay the annual homage of the Ice Patrol to the 1,513 dead who caused its creation. Rolling in the trough of the sea with a bleak grey sky above and the broken hull of the Titanic below, the Mendota lay at rest with her 90 officers & men lining her quarter-deck in full dress while Commander Henry W. Coyle Jr. read the burial service...
...instead of going to France they landed in Vladivostok with some 7,000 other U. S. troops, most of them from the Pacific Coast, who formed the U. S. contingent of Allied Intervention in Russia from 1918 to 1920. From this halfway point the story is told against a background of the "strange, mystifying events" related in General Graves's America's Siberian Adventure. President Wilson's instructions were specific and General Graves stuck to them: to protect Allied munitions stores against German seizure, not to interfere in Russian internal affairs. The British and Japanese took...