Word: embarcadero
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...after the 1937 strike was settled, Charley changed. To the Embarcadero's profane amazement, he became a follower of Father Divine. He ate a chicken dinner, got his soul shampooed and his past washed away, and was reborn as Brother True Knowledge. His wife was reborn, too. She was christened True Obedience and became his sister. When they moved into Father Divine's "Peace Mission" in the Negro section of Oakland, he slept in the men's dormitory, and True Obedience in the women's quarters upstairs...
...them left off five years ago. For those who had forgotten that Americans were pioneers, their faces were a reminder. Now those faces were set toward a frontier of Christendom. Seldom had travelers been so impatient to get under way. But Harry Lundeberg, boss of the strike-ridden Embarcadero, would make no exceptions. "We can't give 'em any relief," said...
...From "Songs of American Sailormen" Cursing the Government, Johnny left her. He left her moored to West Street piers in Manhattan, to the Embarcadero in San Francisco, to the docks of Boston, Seattle and New Orleans. Last week Johnny was on the biggest maritime strike in U.S. history-a strike, moreover, in theory as well as fact against the Government...
...communications. To men from weary countries the men & women on the quaint cable cars, on the city's automobile-lined streets would seem incredibly fresh, well-dressed, well-fed. The great shipyards around San Francisco Bay would launch another small fleet before they departed. And along the Embarcadero they would see Harry Bridges' longshoremen loading ships with tanks, guns, food and clothing by the endless trainload...
...clear afternoon you can see the wide sweep of the Bay, from the Marin hills to the ship-clogged docks of the Embarcadero, watch great grey convoys moving out the Golden Gate. At night city lights gleam far below, the first fighting men have seen in many months...