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Fair, clear and accurate, for the most part, was TIME'S account of the Pacific Coast longshoremen's strike (TIME, July 16, p. 12). But it was not "Norton, Lilly's Pier 38" on San Francisco's Embarcadero where the first attempt to open the port was made by the Industrial Association, but rather McCormick Steamship Co.'s Pier...
...Francisco's Industrial Association had warned that it would open the port. The spot chosen for the attempt was Norton, Lilly's Pier 38, opposite the tough warehouse district which is known to oldsters as "South of the Slot."? Freight cars on the Belt Line Railroad which runs the full length of the broad brick and cobblestoned Embarcadero and is owned and operated by the State were spotted to screen the pier while police cars lined up to keep an open runway. Out of Pier 38 thundered five trucks bearing packaged birdseed, coffee, automobile tires. Before sundown 28 truckloads...
Other passengers who left the Europa in limousines were booed and razzberried on the chance that they might be Dr. Hanfstaengl. He left the pier on a tug provided by the North German Lloyd, dined uptown and went to a night club with Harvard friends bent on escorting him to the reunion at Cambridge of his class of 1909. "You call me 'Putzy' as you did at Harvard," he beamed, "but in Berlin they call me 'Hanfy Hanfstaengl...
With the gay little "Admirals' March" nine Cabinet members one after another were piped over the side of the cruiser Indianapolis docked at a Manhattan pier early one morning last week. Then everybody fidgeted, waiting for President Roosevelt. Finally after 15 minutes he drove up in a touring car whose narrow tonneau he, his full-sized wife and New York's roly-poly mayor LaGuardia more than filled. The ship's band played "The Star Spangled Banner" and the President rode down the Hudson through the narrows and out of New York Harbor for his first review...
Three appointments to the Senior Advisory Committee of Phillips Brooks House were announced last night by Edwin S. Amazeen sGB. Taking office next fall are G. Raymond Dennett '36, Arthur S. Pier, Jr. '35, and Arthur W. Todd...