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...seamen and stewards demanding overtime pay. . . . On the Great Lakes, the American Radio Telegraphists Association struck for better labor conditions on four freight lines. ... In San Francisco, crew troubles tied up the President Hoover, San Anselmo, Maui and Willhilo. ... In San Juan, Puerto Rico, a crew strike held the freighter West Mahwah in port...
...squabbles of Spain's Leftist Government. With his predecessor, General Jose Asenseo, booted upstairs to Undersecretary of War, General Pozas moved mountains to get a sense of discipline and a few rudiments of drill into his militiamen. A lucky hit by a rebel bomber on a reported Russian freighter unloading at Cartagena seemed to prove Britain's assertion that Russia was supplying tanks, artillery and planes to Spain's Red Government, but practically none of this material last week reached the Madrid front. President Manual Azana of Spain and other Cabinet officers had fled fortnight...
...route from Mother Britain to this outpost of Empire last week was a sailing vessel, the Royal Mail Cap Pilar, with a cargo desperately desired by its inhabitants. The rats, reported the master of a British freighter which put in at lonely Tristan da Cunha last August, had got completely out of control of the island's single mongoose, were devouring all crops, even beginning to eat the Bibles of which Tristanites own five to a family. Last week the Cap Pilar was gallantly sailing to the rescue with twelve alley cats...
Freeman lectured on poetry to workers in the needle trades, noting that they liked Whitman but complained that T. S. Eliot was as bad as the Talmud. He worked his way to Russia on a freighter, got a job at the office of the Comintern as a translator. In Russia during the excitement before the expulsion of Trotsky, he was depressed by the conflicts in the Communist Party, dispirited by the unprincipled career-hunting he observed, but did not lose his faith in Communism as a result. He is now on the editorial staff of the New Masses...
...South, wary but impressed in the circles of his Northern companions. He fell in love with a series of amiable Virginia belles, formed a deeper friendship with a tall, unaffected girl named Terry Mullikan, loafed at the University of Virginia until he was suspended, shipped on a freighter, worked on newspapers, married the beautiful, domineering only daughter of a well-to-do family. With her he went to Paris, lived a life of futile anxiety until, under the pressure of conflicts and suspicions that are not clearly described, he grew increasingly morbid, tormented his wife with his nervousness. Meanwhile...