Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slightly fractured" thighbone, the result of tripping over a step as she left the Manhattan apartment of her granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger. There he scuttled about his acres in his own car, went to church, looked in on a local baseball game, pressed a button opening a new harbor development at Balboa. Calif. Then he wished his mother a speedy recovery, boarded his special train, sped back to Washington...
...declared the Defense Coordinator, "rapidly solving the all-important question of food in war time so as to have abundant stores in case of another emergency like the submarine blockade of 1917." Ports. The Port of London Authority, busiest in the world, announced a $60,000,000 program of harbor improvements on the lower Thames...
...world's greatest seaport. It therefore took two grade-A waterfront riots last week, which resulted in injuries for a dozen and arrests for 221, to call New Yorkers' attention to the fact that a bitter seamen's strike has been roiling New York Harbor for two months...
...conservative hands, wangled only a $57.50 pay scale with no overtime. The rank & file began demanding the west coast scale. When the Union failed to get it after the old wage agreement expired last winter, seamen on the 5. 5. California struck in protest in San Pedro, Calif. Harbor (TIME, March 16). Persuaded by Secretary of Labor Perkins to return to work, they took the ship back to Manhattan, where they were promptly fired, branded as "mutineers." Under one Joseph Curran, the dissatisfied element brewed a general east coast seamen's strike. The conservative Union heads, who had meantime...
...from sailing, offered to submit to referendum. The Union heads, with yells of "Outlaw!" at the strikers, have successfully found crews for all outbound ships, refused to put the question to a Union referendum. Last week, as both sides stood pat, Leader Curran claimed 4,500 of New York Harbor's 10,000 seamen were behind him. The Union heads put the figure...