Word: docked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under cover of the dock railway station, Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg received an enthusiastic civic welcome. The Mayor of Plymouth, who extended an official welcome to the new Ambassador and his wife on behalf of the citizens of Plymouth, reminded them of the historic tradition of association which the town had had with America. He said that the harbor had been the headquarters of the U. S. fleet during the War, and, in concluding his speech, he hoped that the happy relation between Great Britain and the U. S. which had long existed would be long maintained...
...charges made by Dr. Tomkins were based upon written evidence, supplied by a Captain Hedstrom, U. S. citizen and assistant dock superintendent at Yokohama, which is backed up by other American observers. The virtual indictment says "that the official order went out to kill as many Koreans as possible that on Sunday, Sept. 2, 1923, 250 Koreans were bound hand and foot, in groups of five, placed in an old junk, covered with oil, burned alive"; that soldiers, ordered to shoot eight Koreans, apparently enjoyed the horror of a party of Americans, who were forced to witness the preparations...
Nearly 450 undergraduate rooters from Rhode Island State College will be on dock at the Stadium this afternoon, when the whole student body will migrate to Cambridge in the wake of their football team. Five cheer leading will combine their forces in an effort to get a good response from the rooters. Between the halves the visitors will entertain the spectators with a snake dance as the University Band will be unable to perform...
...Henderson approached the port an aeroplane of the Royal Canadian Air Force brought the President a message of welcome from the Prime Minister. H. M. S. Patrician appeared and escorted the President into the harbor. Canadian and British warships fired salutes as the Henderson came in. At the dock Colonel Ernest J. Chambers, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, came aboard to acquaint the President with the plans which had been made for his reception...
...Dock Strike (TIME, July 16) has ended. Strikers at nearly every port resumed work. The press does not mention the terms on which settlement was effected, but as it was unofficial and against the advice of the men's leaders, it is presumed that the strike simply fell through...