Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tourists, including a California man and an Australian woman who met and married in the interim, had enjoyed their isolation. But most were glad to be towed in the pineapple barge last week, two miles out to the Matson liner Monterey, whose captain had refused to enter the harbor for fear of losing his crew. They left Hawaii in a state of what its Governor Joseph B. Poindexter called "very grave emergency." No one was starving, but Hawaii imports 55% of its food and after three weeks supplies were running dangerously low, food prices rocketing. As it neared...
Corporation Meeting. In funereal atmosphere punctuated only by tugboat tootings in the harbor, two score small fry and a few big stockholders gathered at No. 17 Battery Place last week to approve or vote down the merger of Tide Water Oil Co. and Associated Oil Co. into a new Tide Water Associated Oil Co. William Francis Humphrey, stout, double-chinned president of Tide Water Associated who is also head of San Francisco's famed Olympic-Club, called the meeting to order, clipped through parliamentary procedure in approved police court fashion...
...threatening "big stick" attitude on the part of the United States have been discarded as unprofitable, fortunately for both continents. The voyage to Buenos Aires, it may be hoped, will signalize the conquest of the last vestige of hate and distrust which South and Central American countries still harbor as the result of the traditional aggressiveness of their "big brother...
...chain fell, 1,500 pigeons sprang into the air. In the harbor, 14 men-of-war boomed a 21-gun salute. Some seals popped up near one of the piers, added their barks to the crowd's cheers. Across the sky droned 250 Navy planes. Beneath them popped a display of daytime fireworks. The dignitaries drove across the bridge to San Francisco, repeated their speeches there. Not until they were carefully out of the way was the public admitted. Then, in the White House, President Roosevelt pressed his little gold key. On flashed green lights at each...
...freighter West Mahwah of the Pacific Argentine Brazil Line has lately been held in San Juan, P. R., by a crew strike (TIME, Nov. 9). One night last week it finally cleared the harbor. Few days later, into the office of U. S. District Attorney A. Cecil Snyder marched four ragged youths, three of them Puerto Ricans, the fourth a 16-year-old from Washington, D. C. named Rothwell Burke. Filing complaints against the West Mahwah, young Burke and two of his companions signed affidavits to the following story...