Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trouble came when Sheriff Harvey Odell of San Joaquin deputized 1,000 Stockton businessmen, armed them with pick handles and put them under the leadership of Colonel Walter Garrison, president of the reactionary Associated Farmers of California. Police and deputies surrounded the canneries as preparations were made to reopen them. Signal for battle was the shout of "Here she comes!" raised by a crowd of pickets...
Meantime in Texas, President Harvey C. Fremming of C. I. O.'s Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers was less concerned with prospective A. F. of L. competition than with his testy reception by hot-tempered Texans. Loosing a warning blast against the Sit-Down last fortnight, young Governor "Jimmy" Allred barked: "We are not going to permit the transfer of disgraceful episodes in other States to Texas. In other words, we are not going to play 'Michigan.' " President Fremming, a bulky onetime University of Washington footballer who knows that a Sit-Down in an oil field...
...year-old Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew), too full of chocolate ice cream sodas, slips under the rail of a transatlantic liner's boat deck, bellywhops down into the icy waters of the Newfoundland fishing banks. Awaking in the fo'c'sle of a Gloucester fishing schooner, Harvey discovers he is in a world where the mysterious emollient of wealth fails to lay a calming film on the stern civilization aboard ship, to say nothing of the waters churning overside. Skipper Disko (Lionel Barrymore) of the We're Here signs Harvey on as a member...
Captains Courageous, a dry-docked, refitted version of Rudyard Kipling's brassbound tale, relates two stories. One is Harvey's finding a model for living in the person of his friend. Manuel. The other is the We're Here's battle for her cargo, and her race home against the Jenny Cushman. Either alone would have made a good picture. Together, as luminous on the fantastic seascape of the banks as lightning on a ship's masthead, they make a fine one. So magnificent are its sweep and excitement, so harmonious its design, that Captains...
...equipment, if for no other reason than to keep a yardstick on costs. Years ago Henry Ford made some of his own tires, discontinuing production when the new River Rouge plant went into operation in 1923. Since then he has bought about half his tires from his good friend Harvey Firestone, the rest from Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber. Henry Ford has made no secret of his alarm over Akron's labor troubles and the possibility of being cut off from his tire source-an alarm which was certainly not stilled by his first encounter with the Sit-Down...