Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...freighter West Mahwah of the Pacific Argentine Brazil Line has lately been held in San Juan, P. R., by a crew strike (TIME, Nov. 9). One night last week it finally cleared the harbor. Few days later, into the office of U. S. District Attorney A. Cecil Snyder marched four ragged youths, three of them Puerto Ricans, the fourth a 16-year-old from Washington, D. C. named Rothwell Burke. Filing complaints against the West Mahwah, young Burke and two of his companions signed affidavits to the following story...
Picketing was peaceful for three weeks. Then trouble popped. A train ran through an open switch, killing two of the crew. Three bridges burned. The strikers' womenfolk got hungry. At Minden, La. 200 of them swarmed on a train, stripped and beat the fireman, made the engineer telegraph his resignation to President Peter Couch...
...rise from head of a timber crew in the north woods to the partnership he has set his heart on, Barney Glasgow has to do more than spur his gang on to a record cutting. He has to marry the boss's unappealing daughter. For this high hurdle in ambition's path he gets up courage by a brief affair with a dance-hall hostess (Frances Farmer), not the least of whose charms is a convenient knack of converting beer trays into lethal missiles in a barroom brawl. When Glasgow goes off to marry his heiress, the eccentric...
...discovery, when he went to the north woods to photograph lumberjacks riding falling trees or breaking up log jams, that these daring practices, familiar to preceding generations of lumberjacks, are scorned by contemporaries as unsophisticated generosity to their employers. He had to return to Hollywood to recruit a crew of fake lumberjacks with enough courage to do what real lumberjacks are supposed to do. Included in the uproar concerning production of Come and Get It was the story which billed Actress Andrea Leeds as Hollywood's "kiss champion'' after she had spent more than nine hours kissing...
...rise to the hilarious contrast. Alice Brady is perfect as the index of what Carole's madness comes to when it matures, and therefore makes us feel sorry for Godfrey. And nosegays to Gall Patrick, the sour note in the family, and Eugene Pallette, the father of the raving crew...