Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minneapolis. Fifteen thousand people swarmed into the Minneapolis Auditorium to hear General Johnson warm up by denouncing "chiselers" and "old guard lookout men." "These are rugged individualists who want to continue to live in the dark ages of human relationships. . . . I'm not going to let them fool the American people. . . . Racketeering is a harsh word. We do not mind it when applied to Al Capone, but these gentlemen do not like to hear it applied to what a Senate committee has disclosed about certain great New York fiduciaries. Why. the truth is, in the light of these developments...
That was the main event on the card but what the crowd had really come to see was not the title match but an astounding 302 lb. freak named Frank ("Man Mountain") Dean whom Promoter Curley, always on the lookout for monstrosities, had found last year in Norcross, Ga. Before that, Man Mountain Dean, reared in Manhattan, had been an unsuccessful stevedore, a sparring partner whom Jess Willard used frequently to knock out. When he became a wrestler three years ago, Man Mountain Dean swore that he would not shave until he won the championship. He now has a bushy...
...attended. Sixty per cent confessed that they would be idle. Forty per cent of these would be searching for jobs, and the remaining 20 per cent taking life as easily as possible. Others would have had jobs ranging from assistant in a cancer research laboratory to lookout on in ice patrol boat in the north Atlantic. Eighteen per cent would be aluminum, book, and encyclopedia salesmen...
...persons and places. When he returns home he writes editorials for his paper, ambitious in conception, abounding in hope and prophecy, eloquent in a style not unlike that of grandiose Publisher Hearst (whom he despises). To his friends in the wide world for which he has made Vancouver his lookout station he often mails copies of his writings- urging monetization of silver for a great new trade with the East; calling for magnanimous U. S. reduction of War Debts...
...Committee heard the remainder of Deal's story: how he swam to a floating gas tank to which three other men were clinging; how they struggled to keep the open spout of the tank above water; how all hands shouted in unison to attract the lookout aboard the tanker Phoebus; how Machinist's Mate Rutan weakened and slipped into the sea and Radioman Copeland held on only to die later, while Deal and Metalsmith Moody S. Erwin were rescued. The Committee heard; but their minds dwelt on those snapping girders-an indication that the mighty Akron had buckled...