Word: cunarder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble between Mr. Ryan and British Royalty was over the question of longshoremen in Canada. I.L.A. has had unions at Halifax and St. John's, but not since 1903 has it had any organization at Montreal. The National Independent Longshoremen's Union handled Cunard White Star Line's loadings in Montreal...
With the rise of C.I.O., Mr. Ryan, a supporter of the A.F. of L., was fearful that the Independent Union would tie up with John L. Lewis. Hence his sudden edict: Cunard White Star must use I.L.A. men in Montreal or I.L.A. men would not serve its ships...
...Nice movie studio after chasing a co-worker with a knife, and wrote his sensational novel Home To Harlem. In Morocco, McKay's next stop, he liked everything except the French authorities, who asked him to leave. But even in Africa he was pursued by whites. Negrophile Nancy Cunard wrote to him, asked him to contribute to a Negro anthology, was offended when McKay asked to be paid...
...stands to their credit if the reservations are given up. This sort of speculative booking had by last week pretty well "filled" the Queen Mary, Paris and Bremen-all of which sail from Manhattan at just the right time for last-minute Coronation fans in a hurry-but the Cunard White Star Line is taking practically its whole fleet out of Manhattan at that time and unquestionably good accommodation is still plentiful. In this or any other year, actual decision to go abroad should of course be followed by "Booking Early" for best, cheapest cabins...
...banking trustee for the $10,000,000 philanthropic fund just given by Motor Maker Lord Nuffield to succor Britain's unemployed and honor Stanley Baldwin for his handling of the Constitutional Crisis (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week Nuffield got nothing, and the peerages strongly predicted in London for Cunard White Star Board Chairman Sir Percy Elly Bates, apropos the Queen Mary, and Home Secretary Sir John Simon, apropos his legal work on the Abdication, also were not conferred at this time...