Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fishermen's Luck. In Auburn, Me., three hooky-playing schoolboys headed for a good fishing stream, thumbed rides, got a lift-but not to the stream-from Galen I. Veayo, superintendent of schools...
...Granite Hall on Saturday nights, Peggy's citizens dance to music from violins played by Fishermen Rupert Manuel and Vaughan Boutilier, an accordion played by Bus Driver Jordan Cook and a guitar played by Mrs. Cecil Caves. On Sundays, Peggy's citizens attend St. John's (Anglican) Church, where 83-year-old Fisherman Albert Crooks, known as the "mayor" of the community, pumps the organ. Each night, at dusk, Fisherman Manuel walks over the rocks to light the oil lamp in Peggy's lighthouse...
...young Royalist, the house was confiscated by the American government fifteen years later, when the owner, after a life of unhappy splendor, fled to the besieged British in Boston. It wasn't long before the nucleus of the American Navy moved in, a bunch of fishermen from Marblehead. They messed the place up pretty badly, and Washington, deciding to move in from his undesirable quarters in Wadsworth House, had to foot a cleaning and redecorating bill of twelve dollars...
...Hand. On the whole, the election returns indicated that General MacArthur was right last month when he said: "The process of democratization . . . takes years." But there were some signs of progress. At Makuwari, farmers and fishermen (who returned the local bosses to power) noticed at least one change. "Once officials were stiff-necked and paid no attention to ordinary people," they said. "Now they come to us and ask us as a favor to vote for them." Commented a U.S. official: "Isn't that the beginning? How else does an awareness of self-government occur...
...policy and would look for support to the trade-union movement and the "politically conscious forces in French Canada." These bucko words were more exaggerated than usual. The Reds did have potent cells or control in many a Canadian union, e.g., the International Woodworkers of America, and the Canadian Fishermen's Union (TIME, Jan. 13). But anti-Red movements are strong in some of the unions. And in "politically conscious French Canada" the Reds have been whacked down harder than ever recently. Actually, the party seems to have made little progress since war's end. But the Reds...