Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over a month both sides have been bickering about a new agreement. The unions demanded higher wages, maintenance of the six-hour day, refused to arbitrate. President Bridges of the International Longshoremen's Association set about doing his best to involve the Atlantic Coast in a nationwide dock-strike to scare shipowners into accepting his terms. To his chagrin, fortnight ago Atlantic longshoremen reached a tentative compromise agreement with their employers for a slight raise...
...Street Court stood Skipper "Dod" and his Brother Jim Orsborne to hear themselves indicted for stealing the Girl Pat. Trial begins next month in Old Bailey, promises to provide some Grade A nautical sensations. As the two accused sailors stepped out of the iron-grilled prisoners' dock, their lawyer, Christmas Humphreys, hinted: "Very serious allegations will have to be made against certain witnesses for the prosecution...
...climbed a telegraph pole, ran a foot race with the police, jumped off the dock, and woke up aboard a river boat 100 miles from home...
When the Rex brought bishop and priest to shore, Bishop Gallagher cried to a crowd on the dock: "Father Coughlin is an outstanding churchman and his voice . . . is the voice...
...page. His seagoing sideburns were gone before he showed himself in range of a camera. A few minutes after dark his chartered schooner Sewanna dropped anchor in Friar's Bay below the Roosevelt cottage on Campobello Island, N. B. Forty red-coated Canadian police drawn up on the dock snapped him a brisk salute as the sleepy President went in to supper...