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...Steve Brodie, 23, Bowery newsboy, bootblack and publicity glutton, claimed to have jumped from Brooklyn Bridge July 23, 1886. Evidence persists, however, that a dummy was dropped from the bridge, while Brodie hid on a pier below, and dived in as the dummy struck. His story at the time was believed. A brewery financed a saloon for him. He made stage appearances, flourished for years, died of tuberculosis in 1901 in San Antonio...
Away from a Baltimore pier of Maryland Drydock Co. last month churned the world's first all-fireproof ship-the chunky, white, 250-ft S.S. Catherine of Bull Steamship Line, having been taken from her regular Caribbean run and rebuilt from keel up with noncombustible materials, As if this were a monument to his regime, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, who was appointed by President Roosevelt to improve safety at sea after the Morro Castle fire of 1934, last week resigned his job. Said he: "I feel that the job is about...
...Department, legally but against its will, to grant him a license to export $2,777,000 of second-hand airplanes and war materials to the Spanish Loyalists (TIME, Jan. n); 2) Captain José Santa María of the Spanish freighter Mar Cantabrico which lay at a Brooklyn pier loading Mr. Cuse's war goods; 3) Richard L. Dineley who, on the day Congress convened, obtained similar licenses to export $4,500,000 of similar second-hand war goods to Spain via Mexico: 4) Felix Gordon de Ordaz, Spanish Ambassador to Mexico, who was flying to Washington...
...fellow Presidents suggesting the conference which his State Department had arranged. And last week as the S. S. American Legion tied up at Buenos Aires, Messrs. Hull & Welles stood on its deck, acting once more as advance men for Franklin Roosevelt's personal appearance. On the pier a tall professorial man with a long stiff neck and high stiff collar frantically waved his hat. He was their host, Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine Foreign Minister, who 24 hours before had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1936 and who was so delighted that he could hardly wait...
...Manhattan the S. S. Oriente was held at her pier for ten hours by a strike of 40 seamen and stewards demanding overtime pay. . . . On the Great Lakes, the American Radio Telegraphists Association struck for better labor conditions on four freight lines. ... In San Francisco, crew troubles tied up the President Hoover, San Anselmo, Maui and Willhilo. ... In San Juan, Puerto Rico, a crew strike held the freighter West Mahwah in port...