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...strike last March, President Roosevelt sent Mediator Henry Francis Grady to the West Coast to work for peace. Mr. Grady returned to Washington to declare : "We have a revolution on our hands." The longshoremen's strike hit early in May. Maritime workers joined them in sympathy. At San Pedro orange ship ments rotted in the docks. At San Fran cisco $40,000,000 worth of cargo stood unmoved in the dockyards while in the bay 61 loaded freighters lay idle and deserted. Ship owners were losing more than $100,000 a day. At Portland the docks creaked with unloaded...
Lead ship was the light cruiser Milwaukee. Up she went 85 ft. through Miraflores and Pedro Miguel locks to Gatun Lake. Forty-eight hours later the training-ship Melville ended the procession of the in ships. Canal capacity had been estimated at 48 ships in 24 hr. Admiral Sellers and Governor Schley congratulated all hands on raising the record to 55 ships...
Sandino's memory was still the most combustible thing in Nicaragua. To fill the great little man's boots, a swart, chunky dentist named Pedro Jose Zepeda popped up in Mexico City last week and announced that he had the papers that entitled him to leadership of Sandino's followers. Cried he: "I have ten generals and 1,500 armed men ready to take the field at the order of President Sacasa against the dictatorship now in control of the country [Somoza...
...refer to trade conferences now being conducted by Japanese industrialists and government officials with England's textile manufacturers in London and America's tuna packers in San Pedro, Calif...
...Miami Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, accompanied by Braintruster Rexford Guy Tugwell and a bevy of female newshawks, boarded Pan-American Airways' 44-passenger American Clipper and flew away to the Caribbean Islands. At San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, alighting in a fresh white suit, she was carried off by President Trujillo in his automobile bearing a large brass plaque "Primera Dama de la Republica!" to a palm-thatched pavilion where the President and Foreign Minister Arturo Lograno entertained her elegantly. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, she hugged Mrs. James Bourne, wife of the Relief Administrator. At St. Thomas...