Word: longshoreman
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...rather like Abraham Lincoln. To his friends he is "Coop." Though special tributes are often paid him where young women gather, he escapes such masculine calumny as sometimes finds its way toward the ears of Clark Gable. Boyfriends and husbands watch him without defensive squirming. Had Coop been a longshoreman he might well have been the most popular, if not the most active, man at the waterfront bars. Had he gone to Yale he might well have been the Most Popular Man in his class. As it was, he went to Hollywood and became the most popular...
Last year Dean James McCawley Landis of Harvard Law School put alien, unnaturalized C. I. O. Longshoreman Harry Bridges to the legal rack, found that he could not legally be considered a member of the Communist Party. Radical Alien Bridges was therefore not subject to de portation by Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (TIME...
...Dover, now a way station on Hell's Corridor from Dunkirk to London, tall (6 ft. 5 in.), eccentric, Harvard-bred Guy Murchie of the Chicago Tribune, a onetime seaman, chauffeur, section hand, longshoreman, gravedigger, author (Men on the Horizon), was standing by a window in his top-floor hotel room while a squadron of German bombers droned overhead. He was talking with two naval officers and his assistant, Australian Stanley Johnstone, when there was an explosion. The whole side of the hotel collapsed. Down through four floors dropped Newsman Murchie in a shower of timbers, bricks, soot, debris...
...clerks be hired. In a note to their editor, reporters and copy boys on the San Francisco News voiced the general sentiment of San Francisco: "PLEASE, BOSS, LET'S NOT HAVE ANOTHER STRIKE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME." Settlement of the strike gave C.I.O.'s mighty little Longshoreman Harry Bridges the first real setback he has had since he rose to power with the San Francisco general strike...
...since last September, the lights have burned in a big, high-ceiled room in Harvard's Langdell Hall. Hard at work there was Dean James M. Landis of Harvard Law School, mulling 7,724 pages and 1,540,000 words of testimony by and about C. I. O. Longshoreman Harry Bridges...