Word: merchanted
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Main objective of the U. S. Maritime Commission in its task of reviving the U. S. merchant marine is the construction of at least 500 new ships in the next ten years. To man these ships, the commission wants well-trained men. In his straight-from-the-shoulder critique of U. S. shipping last year, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, then commission chairman, recommended Government-run training schools for seamen as one sure way of insuring a skilled personnel. At this suggestion the warring factions of U. S. marine labor stopped making faces at one another long enough to make a unanimous...
Last week, 36 student seamen, first batch of more than 2,400 expected to enroll within a year, were ferried out to tiny, shuttle-shaped Hoffman Island in lower New York Bay for the first session of the new Merchant Marine Training School. Superintendent was smiling Lieut. Commander George Evans McCabe of the U. S. Coast Guard, an energetic expert in seacraft who will rate a salute from every man in the school (". . . and not with a sneer on his face, either"). Teachers will be six commissioned officers and 30 petty officers from the Coast Guard cutter service. For training...
Jewish-Irish- Muncie, Ind. is "Middletown," U. S. A. Benjamin Victor Cohen was born there in 1894, son of a scrap iron merchant. He broke all scholastic records at University of Chicago Law School (1915), took a postgraduate year at Harvard Law School and became secretary to U. S. Circuit Court Judge Julian Mack (receiverships). The War and the Jews' plight brought Cohen into contact with Louis Dembitz Brandeis. He is still a director of Palestine Economic Corp., wherein he first tasted planned economy. In the reckless 19205 he was not above playing the stockmarket. A killing Chrysler stock...
...Bona Allens, like 50% of their bottom-crust classmen, are for the most part factory workers (at about $125 a month) for the company (Bona Allen leather company) that owns the team. The other half of the semi-pro class play on teams owned by small-town merchant groups or individuals with $5,000 and a yen to own a ball club. They include many a onetime major-leaguer on his way out, many a schoolboy on his way up. But the backbone of the semi-pros are barbers, butchers, lumberjacks, bootblacks and other workmen who play baseball three times...
Last year, when the Merchant Marine Act terminated all ocean mail contracts. Dollar whirled nearer than ever the maelstrom of 77B. In January, the Maritime Commission caught it just in time, awarded a $1,400,000 temporary six-month subsidy, ordered the leaky financial hull scraped and calked before it would consider a permanent subsidy. When the six-month grant expired, the Dollar crew had not completed the required financial overhaul, proposed instead counter plans that smacked of the old Captain's brass. Typical suggestion was that for the old Captain's bargain ships, on which...