Word: manuel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of his crew at $3 a month, explaining that he cannot put back into Gloucester until the fore and after holds are full of fish, by which time Harvey will have earned $9. In the sweat-steaming, overheated fo'c'sle, sometimes in the dory of Manuel (Spencer Tracy), the Portuguese crew member who boat-hooked him from the liner's creaming wake, always beset by the wild and hairy faces of these shipmates whose lives, like their bodies, had been twisted into frightening shapes by their long combat with the sea. Harvey begins his quest...
Captains Courageous, a dry-docked, refitted version of Rudyard Kipling's brassbound tale, relates two stories. One is Harvey's finding a model for living in the person of his friend. Manuel. The other is the We're Here's battle for her cargo, and her race home against the Jenny Cushman. Either alone would have made a good picture. Together, as luminous on the fantastic seascape of the banks as lightning on a ship's masthead, they make a fine one. So magnificent are its sweep and excitement, so harmonious its design, that Captains...
...Franklin. Roosevelt has the smartest political brain in the U. S., there is no doubt Manuel Quezon has the smartest political brain in the Philippines. Last week Señor Quezon's brain was visiting the U. S., working full speed while its owner was busy in Washington with the Interdepartmental Committee on Philippine affairs. For Mr. Quezon was putting a very delicate case to Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Sayre, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, Brigadier General Creed F. Cox, Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, Paul...
...Zamora y Torres, who was the Republican President of Spain up to less than a year ago and today earns his living as a journalist in France, has now contributed to the Swiss Journal de Geneve his historic recollections of how things went in Madrid under the premiership of Manuel Azana who today is the Leftist Government's President of Spain...
Adopted. By Mrs. William Teaham, sister of Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, onetime U. S. High Commissioner to the Philippine Commonwealth; a daughter; in Detroit. Name: Mary (after the Governor's deceased mother) Aurora (after the wife of Philippine President Manuel Quezon...