Word: crew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strengthen its hand in negotiations, the union began a campaign to dispel the notion that its members are an irresponsible lot given to ill-timed whimsicalities. First step was a display of testimonials to the courtesy, cleanliness, service, honesty & sobriety of American crews. Not the least expert among them was a wire from restless Cornelius Vanderbilt: "I have been up all night during storms and have never yet seen anything being destroyed by the crew...
...whiskey & soda, the thing an Englishman dislikes most is a draft from an open window. So last week when barristers and jurors complained of drafts to Mr. Justice Humphreys at the Winchester assizes, the bewigged justice gave heed, dismissed court. In 20 hours, at a cost of ?100, a crew of 22 carpenters and electricians equipped the room with a new heating system, screens, air ventilators, false ceiling. Next day the session was resumed. The room was sweltering. One juror fainted. "Now," bellowed the exasperated justice, "the courtroom...
...April issue of Picture, due on newsstands last week, did not appear. Of the Comus' crew of monthly picture magazines which have appeared in the last two years, it was the first important one to suspend publication. Picture, brought out in December (TIME, Dec. 27), was rather effectively elbowed out of the way early in January by lowbrowed Click. Now Picture Publisher J. Stirling Getchell, one of the first to be bitten by the picture magazine bug, can again concentrate full efforts on his big advertising agency...
Highpoints in the careers of the other winners are as follows: George von L. Meyer, captain of the 150-pound crew. Wiley E. Mayne, Secretary of the Student Council and President of the Inter-House Athletic Council, Robert W. Snyder, President of the Pierian Sodality and Conductor of the Band, John S. Bainbridge, a member of the Lampoon, and Morris Earle, former President of the CRIMSON, Manager of soccer, and a member of the Student Council. How They Voted MARSHAL *C Russell Allen 224 *Vernon H. Struck 216 *John L. Dampeer 210 Joseph P. Kennedy 190 Francis Keppel 187 Harold...
...mostly from Massachusetts, commissioned by Congress, the privateers were almost as essential to the American cause as the French ships at Yorktown. Out of them the Cabots and Eliots made their fortunes, since the owners kept half of all prize money and divided the rest among the captain and crew. Besides being a more lucrative business than fighting in the continental navy, privateering was safer, as the ships were faster and the sailors more efficient. It made British trade routes dangerous to traverse and brought home needed goods, yet for naval operations it was useless...