Word: marchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers last week were on strike. Guarding the plant while Chinese workers looked on was 45-year-old Briton R. M. Tinkler, a former Shanghai police inspector. When 40 Chinese strikebreakers attempted to enter the mill, a fight followed. Suddenly a landing party of Japanese marines appeared, started to march away strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested, but Japanese marines batted him over the skull with a gun-butt. What happened next is not clear. Japanese claimed Tinkler threatened them with a revolver, observed that "he came into contact with Japanese bayonets." One thing was clear, however: Tinkler slowly...
Published this week was a new, scrupulous biography* with Thornbury sieved out by 35 years of patient research (ended last March by Biographer Finberg's death) in contemporary records and in the previously unstudied "Turner wastepaper basket," eleven boxes of notes and sketchbooks preserved in the National Gallery. The figure that emerges is a businesslike professional with a shrewd grey eye and the weather-beaten taciturnity of a shipmaster, a lover of open sea, open sky and the money that enabled him to be independent and solitary. In reproving Thornbury's tales of early love affairs...
...thousands of columns of his exploits and plans for exploits. About nearly all of them there was an element of bravery and an element of bravura. He swam the Panama Canal (in installments), followed, on foot, the course of 1) Cortez' conquest of Mexico, 2) Balboa's march across Darien to the Pacific. He wandered through Yucatan, Peru and Brazil, with a pet monkey that died at last from overeating. He swam the Sea of Galilee, appeared in a movie called India Speaks, rode an elephant over the Alps. He grew older (he was 39 last January...
...night of March 23 the Sea Dragon was some 1,200 miles west of Midway Island. In the same seas, 40 feet high, the liner President Coolidge was running' through a typhoon, her speed slowed to six knots. From the Sea Dragon Captain Welch radioed to Dale Collins, executive officer of the President Coolidge: Southerly gales, Squalls. Lee rail under water. Hard tack. Bully beef. Wet bunks. Having wonderful time. Wish you were here instead of me. Welch, Master...
...Collins heard nothing after that In his report to his company he wrote "If the Sea Dragon encountered such weather as we did on the night of March 23, and she undoubtedly did, there i small chance that the little craft survived...