Word: longshoreman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Bridges last week took pains to announce that he is no relation to radical Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
Closed for the third week was the lovely, troublous port of San Francisco, a vital artery of Pacific Coast commerce. Longshoreman Harry Bridges and water front employers were at outs. Coastal businessmen and inland farmers suffered, drummed denunciations at durable Mr. Bridges...
...Shipping. On the Atlantic and Gulf coasts A. F. of L. mans the docks, C. I. O. mans the ships, and both want the whole hog. On the Pacific Coast, Longshoreman Bridges is all but supreme on the docks, has some seagoing personnel, but A. F. of L. has most of the sailors and the teamsters who haul to & from the waterfronts. C. I. O.'s eastern National Maritime Union last week took a grave setback when it gave up its strike against Standard Oil of New Jersey and four other tanker companies, leaving disgruntled Gulf Coast sailors likely...
...Francisco, Australian-born Longshoreman Alfred ("Harry") Renton Bridges, West Coast C. I. O. leader, for the third time filed his intention of becoming a U. S. citizen ("first papers"). Absentminded, he forgot to get his final papers by 1928 and again 1935, or he would be in no danger of deportation...
TIME, Feb. 6, p. 9, col. 3: "Longshoreman Harry Bridges, whom patrioteers have tried to get deported. . . ." Please, what do you mean by patrioteer? And when you tell me, will you say if you mean that such are all who wish to see Harry Bridges deported? If you tell me this, tell me, too, what has happened to our feeling for the fine word patriot, that in this country, and, so far as I know, only in this country, people are ashamed of it and so often give it the sneering inflexion ? I am touchy...