Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canny Britisher, with an eye to the vast trade possibilities in Russia, has sat patiently under repeated injuries, only sending occasional notes of dignified rebuke. A British civil engineer was executed in 1920, British fishermen have been molested and injured in the Baltic, British prestige has been undermined abroad by propaganda. But the straw which has broken the camel's back is the insolence with which British protests over the Church trials and executions have been received, an insolence "unexampled in the case of Governments affecting to be on friendly terms...
These schooners are each run by a skipper and crew of nine or ten hard-boiled fishermen. They are usually armed with sawed-off shotguns and always with automatic pistols...
...citizens of Highland are divided in their attitude toward the new industry. Fishermen, chandlers, shipbuilders, and truckman of the town look upon the bootleg trade as a gift from heaven, but the more respectable residents resent the presence of flashily dressed, hard-faced strangers who frequent the restaurants and put through their liquor deals under the very noses of the local police...
...Grenfell first started his mission work 30 years ago, after having worked for several years among the fishermen of the North Sea and Irish Coast. He began his work entirely alone, by going from village to village and giving whatever medical aid he could. Being financed by the British Deys Lea Mission, he was able to gradually increase the scope of his work. Year after year he added more and more workers to his organization until now he is able to clothe, educate, and give medical aid to ten thousand people, scattered along about 600 miles of coast line...
...upon the decisions of the prize juries to guide his choice of books. A writer in "L'Oeuvre" recalls the newspaper story of the catch of a marvellous fish off the Pont Royal, and how by 8 o'clock of the day the paper appeared, two hundred would-be fishermen and six hundred spectators were on the spot to see the performance repeated. Similarly, he points out, is there a rush of people to the booksellers to obtain some obscure book, because the "Matin" or the "Temps" informs then that the Academic Goncourt has just "recognized...