Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sanatorium last May, but no one knew whether he was alive or dead and no one cared. His union was being run by his well-entrenched successors, old leaders who have no practical authority on the Pacific Coast and who flatly oppose the strike on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. The new leaders, Harry Renton Bridges in the West and Joseph Curran in the East were fighting their own battles on their own lines, aided by alliances with longshoremen and other maritime workers with whom Andy Furuseth never stooped to parley...
...Atlantic and Gulf, 151 ships and 16,000 men were idle, according to Strikeleader Joseph Curran. Shipowners and Madam Perkins joined in calling these figures "exaggerated," but produced none of their own. Meanwhile, the three-cornered battle went on apace. Shipowners produced the old Red herring that the East Coast strikers were led by racketeering Communists. Using this as an excuse President John M. Franklin of International Mercantile Marine (which particularly hates Seaman Curran because he began his striking career on an I. M. M. ship last spring) requested New York City's special prosecutor of racketeering, Thomas...
...strike virus spread fast. Along the Gulf, at Port Arthur, Houston. Mobile and New Orleans, rank & file groups started minor strikes. On the Atlantic, at Boston, Poughkeepsie, Providence there were similar troubles. In Baltimore, 600 seamen walked out. In Philadelphia, 16 ships were tied up. Generally, however, Atlantic maritime workers looked to New York Harbor for guidance. There the man who is nominally head of all U. S. longshore men, President Joseph P. Ryan, jockeyed with the man who would like to be the Harry Bridges of the Atlantic, Seaman Joseph Curran...
...want Curran!" Insurgent Curran had been barred admission, was waiting outside. Called in, he won a unanimous strike vote, declared that every U. S. Atlantic port would be tied up. In the next two days 91 ships were strike bound in Atlantic harbors, 35 in the Gulf...
Injured when his automobile upset near Three Rivers, N. Mex., was Cattleman Robert Kleberg Jr., whose famed Santa Gertrudis ranch covers 1,250,000 acres, fronts on the Gulf of Mexico for 80 miles. Before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers at Rochester, N. Y., Board Chairman Merlin Hall Aylesworth of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. demanded higher cinema admission prices, declared: "The wasteful, injurious practice . . . of giving away one Grade A picture with one Grade B picture is like eating too much ice cream at one time." Stricken in Hollywood with bronchial pneumonia lay Cinemactress Norma Shearer, widow of famed...