Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to read in clear, concise, pithy phraseology of world events, even if the events themselves be of muddled nature, is very satisfying. The succinct remark about Miss MacDonald's tooth acting and the holocaust of letters it involved was most cheering...
...been forgotten last week by officials of United Shipyards, Inc. as they prepared to launch the 1,500-ton destroyer Fanning they were building at their Staten Island yard for the U. S. Navy at a cost of $4,000,000. When the morning chosen for the launching arrived, Miss Cora Arinna Marsh of New London, Conn., great-great-granddaughter of Lieut. Nathaniel Fanning, Revolutionary naval hero dressed in her smartest clothes, journeyed to a Manhattan pier and waited to be ferried to Staten Island on an official tug. At the same time more than 250 invited guests made their...
...appointed hour anxious company officials greeted Miss Marsh at the pier, expressed their regrets, told her there could be no launching, because 1,500 members of the Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers employed at the yard had most embarrassingly struck that morning, refusing either to work or go home before quitting time. They claimed their employers had failed to live up to the wage and working conditions sections of their contract. Back to New London went Miss Marsh...
...days later the Navy, more interested in expediency than protocol, rushed Miss Marsh to the shipyard, had her send the Fanning down the ways in the teeth of last week's blinding gale. This time the official guests were inside the shipyard gates, the strikers outside...
...offices have parted. Miss Spidell, for the Houses, has a new little cubbyhole tucked away in the Dean's office upstairs. Into her old quarters has moved Miss Butcher, quiet custodian of personnel records, while the ever-expanding Employment Agency crowds across the hall on the ground floor into her former room...