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...summer, wind-bitten Nova Scotian schoonermen had put into Lunenburg and Halifax with fresh fish and frayed tempers. Now that the war was over, big (500 to 1,200-ton) Portuguese and Spanish trawlers were back in numbers on the Quero (from Banquereau) Bank. Bluenose skippers howled that they were trying to run Canadian schooners (80-90 tonners) off the grounds...
...chancellorship, an honorary post, is currently held by the Earl of Halifax, former Ambassador to the U.S. The vice-chancellorship, usually held for three years, rotates by seniority among the heads of Oxford colleges...
...Earl of Halifax became one of the select company (limited to 24 living persons) awarded the Order of Merit...
That was about all that happened. The Novikovs left the next day without a physical bruise on them. They might not remember Detroit as feelingly as Britain's Lord Halifax...
...Halifax "raiders" boarded a freighter at midnight, "kidnapped" seven strikebreakers smuggled aboard the previous day. In other ports a few ships moved with officer-crews. In a week 150 strikers were arrested for violence and desertion...