Word: longshoreman
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Democracy has been kind to Joseph Patrick Ryan. He quit school at 12, worked as stock boy, clerk, streetcar conductor, as a longshoreman at $18 for a six-day week. Now, at 59, as president of the A. F. of L. International Longshoremen's Association, he makes $20,000 a year...
...pounds are sustained by the appetite of a longshoreman. She eats five or six meals a day, takes three vitamin pills, and is a chain drinker of chocolate milk shakes, which are delivered almost hourly to her dressing room. "Fragility, hah!" snorts Trainer Vincenzo Celli, "she has a Rolls-Royce powerhouse constitution...
...story from the Worker's Washington bureau, Longshoreman Bridges was identified as a "West Coast Communist leader." More than 10,000 copies of the edition were run off before someone caught on. While squads of employes scurried out to retrieve as many copies as possible, presses were stopped and the sentence changed to read: "West Coast maritime leader...
Surgeon, Old Style. From tail coats, surgeons progressed to shirt sleeves and rubber aprons, not to protect the patient but to protect the surgeon's clothes. One man wore longshoreman's boots, another "butcher's boots which he never cleaned." Only by gradual stages was the present top-to-toe sterile white achieved...
Attaching little importance to himself as "just a pretty good longshoreman," Bridges vigorously attacked what he termed the "Biddle yardstick for arbitrarily measuring how good a patriot a man is." He appealed directly to the heterogenous Harvard-Radcliffe-Cambridge audience for support of the nation's labor leaders, who he claimed are up to their necks in the war effort, against "sniping attacks" from short-sighted anti-laborites...