Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everywhere shall weare modest and sober habit, without strange, rufflan-like or newfangled fashions; . . . neither shall it be Lawfull for any to weare Long Hair Locks or foretopps nor to use curling, crissing, parting, or powdering their Haire." The College authorities, though they might have been tempted by the crew hair cut to a modern corollary of this law, saw fit to omit the mention of any such regulation in the Parietal Rules of 1936! But it is our purpose to discuss, in the light of past experiences and future experiments, some of Harvard's more serious recent changes...
Soprano Mary Lewis sang The Star Spangled Banner. Postmaster General James A. Farley presented the Robert L. Hague trophy. Recipient was the crew of the swank Italian liner Conte di Savoia who, winning for the second time in three years, outdistanced last year's winner, a lifeboat crew from the oil-tanker W. C. Teagle, by nine seconds. In last place, far behind the representatives of a United Fruit steamer, a Norwegian-America liner and the Furness Bermuda Line's Queen of Bermuda, was the unfortunate lifeboat crew of the Normandie...
...Francisco, Calif, last week the crew of Pacific Steamship's liner H. F. Alexander struck for $30 dismissal wages...
...Hilo, Hawaii, the Matson liner Matsonia left strikers on the beach, sailed with a skeleton crew...
...from Honolulu Brenner headed a group of sailors who complained that Captain George Yardley had violated sea safety laws by putting out with hatches open, booms hanging overside, four lifeboats dismantled. When the ship was ready to sail from San Francisco for the Orient, 50 members of her deck-crew refused to sign on unless Seaman Brenner were hired also. The Line refused. After six days' delay and $50,000 loss to the Line, the Department of Labor's pudgy Trouble-Shooter Edward Fitzgerald persuaded Secretary Harry Lundeberg of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific to cool...