Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this month a hung jury caused the release of five islanders charged with the first rape. Fourteen thousand Army & Navy men on the island boiled with .rage. Fortnight ago a Japanese, Horace Ida, was seized by three carloads of sailors from the Pearl Harbor base, whisked across the island to the Pali precipice. After threats to throw him over the 1,207-ft. cliff, Ida was stripped, beaten with belt buckles and pistol butts, kicked and cuffed, left half-dead...
Simultaneously eight riot calls were turned in at Honolulu. A Marine detachment from Pearl Harbor was called out while sailors in dungarees fought civilians about the streets. With order restored, the Navy canceled all leave while its shore patrol was doubled...
Last week the third and greatest unit went into operation when Safe Harbor Water Power Corp. started its first generator, began to deliver power to Baltimore. Safe Harbor, Pa. got its name many years ago when the mouth of Conestoga Creek offered shelter to Susquehanna flat boats. In 1929, when work began on Safe Harbor dam, it was a quiet village. Little work had been done when the stock-market crashed in November but construction went on at a faster pace. The company's bankers, Aldred & Co. of New York, supplied money to Arundel Corp., construction engineers, whenever they...
...Safe Harbor Water Power Corp. is owned jointly by Consolidated Gas Electric Light & Power Co. of Baltimore and Pennsylvania Water & Power Co. Chair-man of all three companies is bald, mustached Banker John Edward Aldred of Manhattan to whom the debut of Safe Harbor brought some comfort in a time of trial over the affairs of Gillette Safety Razor Co.* In 1909 John Aldred came down from Canada to be receiver for McCall Ferry Power Co. Under his direction it was reorganized as Pennsylvania Water & Power Co. A big dam at Holtwood, Pa. was completed and began supplying power...
Instead of being primarily a news gathering and disseminating organ, we have become first of all a depository for all sorts of riff--raff that knows no other harbor. Our desk drawers, our cubby-holes, our corners are cluttered up with eyeglasses, ladies, handbags, odd buttons and economic text-books. Our mail slots contain missives that no one else will claim...