Word: longshoremen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Upheld by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco: the perjury conviction of Harry Bridges, president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, for swearing on a naturalization petition that he had never been a Communist. Also upheld...
...Stevenson offered further clarification on how to pronounce his name, quoted Mark Twain on the subject of his vice presidential grandfather: Philologists sweat and lexicographers bray, But the best they can do is to call him Adlay. But at longshoremen's picnics, where accents are high, Fair Harvard's not present, so they call him Ad-lie. Longshoremen notwithstanding, Princetonian Stevenson insists that the Harvards had it right...
...Longshoremen...
...skill. They compete with each other for insurance business. They still have tight control of sugar and ultimate say-so over the Matson steamship line, but dominate very little else. They lean over backward to live up to the letter of their labor contracts with Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, and pay fancy salaries for labor-relations and public-relations advisers. "Hell," snorted a plantation owner recently, "they are so damn busy at Bishop & Merchant with labor-relations meetings that they've forgotten how to raise sugar...
...First, the accents are botched. Natives of the Western Isles speak without a burr (or in Gaelic), and it is said that the purest English in the world can be heard in Inverness, capital of the highlands. Yet the Bonnie Prince Charlie characters sound like a flock of Glasgow longshoremen...