Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making real progress when the strike came. Last week there was a split in the shipowners' ranks, as 27 coastwise companies made separate overtures to the longshoremen, the chief Pacific union with which they were concerned since they hire almost all their seamen on the cheaper Atlantic. Deep-sea Pacific shippers still were obliged to consider all maritime unions. With this schism in sight, Harry Bridges would have preferred delaying strike action. But the Maritime Federation he had so carefully built up proved his Frankenstein. Standing to gain nothing by a compromise between coastwise shippers and Pacific longshoremen...
Alone with a microphone, after all the crowds, the shouts, the flaring lights, Alf Landon spoke in a voice surprisingly calm and deep. It grew ever quieter, slower, more halting as he reached the close of his election eve broadcast, last speech of his campaign. "Our healing . . . will be revealed by the still small voice-that speaks to the conscience-and the heart -prompting us to a wider-and wiser- humanity." On came the voice of the announcer, reverent and tender, as if speaking the epilog of a sad and stirring drama: "And so, quiet falls over the study...
...should all be alive on the morning of November 4th. He finds that his prediction has come true, and waking up to a world which seems outwardly as substantial as it has ever been, he is delighted to turn his thoughts into other and more refreshing channels than the deep dark and turbulent moat of politics...
...slatternly housekeeper named Maia, four dogs, a secret hoard of gold, a deep contempt for himself and his hypocritical colleagues, bitter memories of his wife and of the day he lost her, of when he once entered a crowded room. saw her talking with another man, and felt that people were smiling...
DEATH IN THE DEEP SOUTHWard Green-Stackpole ($2). "Neither a crime novel nor a mystery novel," laid in an anonymous Southern city, in which an unassuming New York teacher in a business college is convicted on circumstantial evidence of murdering his beautiful 15- year-old student...