Word: kim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vorovsky Before Kim...
...your issue of April 16, p. 13, under the title: "The Cabinet," Kim and Congress, appears the following...
...statement contained in the last sentence above quoted is incorrect. The Kim is not the first Russian ship to visit a U. S. port in 17 years. The Russian ship Vazlaz Vorovsky entered this port on March 23, 1925. There were women in the crew of the Vazlaz Vorovsky as there were in the crew of the Kim. The cargo of the Vazlaz Vorovsky consisted of bulk sylvinite and bulk manure salt...
...carrying a cargo of cement, mica, chalk, fuller's earth, Caucasian wine, oil of apricots, juniper (gin) berries. All her officers and able seamen had individual outside cabins amidship. She carried two young stewardesses to feed and amuse her picked crew of young cadets. Even her name KNM (Kim} was chosen for pronunciation by non-Russian tongues. Aside from the motto "Ahead To World's Revolution" inscribed in the crew's game room (equipped with piano and radio) she took every precaution not to offend U. S. sensibilities. Her crew was forbidden to get drunk ashore...
...Besides these four, the Blue is also blessed with a good crop of Sophomore backs. Tommy Curtin and Jerry Roscoe shape up unusually well, while Dick Cummins and Kim Whitehead, also 1936, combine with Mal Watson, Sid Towle, Earl Nikkel, and Danny Lynch to round out a fairly large backfield squad." TIME...