Word: dock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bobbies who tried to intervene. At Cardiff the captain and crew of an Italian steamer were driven below decks by brawny longshoremen who swarmed aboard and plastered every door and hatchway with posters reading "Down With The Fascists! Hands Off Ethiopia!" Between the strata of middle-class stockbrokers and dock workers a great section of Britons had been more or less aroused last week to one of their characteristic hates. But the ruling class, "the families," remained serene for the time being and, as represented in His Majesty's Government, alert to seize their political opportunity...
Such was the plot grimly unfolded in the Supreme Court in Tokyo last week. Fifty-four accused men sat in the dock, nabbed by the imperial police 15 months ago before they could make a move (TIME. July 31, 1933). Miserably they bleated: "We called ourselves God-Sent Troops. Our only purpose was to serve the Emperor...
...Insider was Seymour Weiss, one-time barbershop manager who now runs New Orleans' biggest hotel and the Dock Board, a plump, baldish, suave, natty Jew credited with handling the Long money bags so adroitly that, while he himself is under Federal indictment for income tax evasion, a four-year Treasury search has yet to turn up any charge against the Kingfish, whose fortune last week was variously estimated from...
Communist Darcy drew even louder cheers by brashly revealing that, after U. S. dock workers' contracts with their employers expire Sept. 20, the U. S. Communist Party expects to foment "strikes of unprecedented magnitude." Asserting that California Communist stevedores enjoy cordial relations with the Communist stevedores of The Netherlands and Australia. Mr. Darcy wisely observed: "The international contacts of the working class acquire special significance in connection with the danger of an imperialist war. It is essential to win great influence among the sailors and port workers engaged in loading and transporting military supplies." In their speeches Reds Browder...
What the girls did not know was that two U. S. Government agents were also on board and that the Cuban Government was expecting the girls' new friends. At the Havana dock, Cuban police and immigration officers swarmed aboard, herded the investigating commission into a corner and with it Mamie Keselenko and Regina Lazar. Late that night they were all led to a pier, their papers confiscated. Two launches ferried them across Havana Bay. On the dark shore they marched uphill, nudged along by submachine guns, to the Tiscornia Immigration Station. Later that night Author Odets was permitted...