Word: colombo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sideswiped the Idle Hour, snapped her sticks, and for 25 days the boys, sailed the 1,200 miles to New Zealand under a jury mast, with a blanket for sail. After repairs, the Idle Hour touched at Sydney, New Guinea, Bali, Singapore, carrying an occasional venturesome paying passenger. At Colombo, Ceylon, Timi caught malaria, died in Long's arms. Long saw to Timi's burial, then sailed on to London, stayed a year, wrote his 120,000-word book. In June he left Falmouth with Wilbur Thomas, 25, an American acquaintance who had come from California to sail...
...done a thousand times before during the National Labor Relations Board hearings on the Ford Motor Co. case in Detroit (TIME, July 26), Louis J. Colombo Sr., the swart, able Ford counsel, shouted one day last week: "I object." Lawyer Colombo objected to the way the Labor Board counsel was riding a Ford foreman who testified that he fired a man, not for union activity as charged, but for "gazing off into space." But Lawyer Colombo's objection was overruled by Trial Examiner John T. Lindsay. Lawyer Colombo started to say: "I am going to object every time . . ." when...
...that Lawyer Colombo strode toward the dais, waving his hands, declaring: "There must be some rule of fairness in this." Up jumped Examiner Lindsay, crying: "Now wait a minute, wait a minute." Yelled Lawyer Colombo: "Wait a minute yourself...
...moment it looked as if the lawyer and the examiner were about to have at one another but finally Mr. Lindsay admonished: "You've been treated to every courtesy here." Roared Mr. Colombo: "Yes, courtesy! I'm treated like a horse thief...
Next day just before he wound up the turbulent Ford hearings, preparatory to submitting his report to the three-man Labor Board in Washington, Examiner Lindsay gave a little dissertation on the theory of Labor Board hearings, a type of procedure which has baffled many another lawyer beside Mr. Colombo. Said the trial examiner...