Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the former pupils who spoke briefly in praise of Professor Winter and testified to the advantage they had gained from his teaching were the Hon. Edmund C. Billings, former collector of the port of Boston; Professor S. L. Garrison '12 of Amherst; Professor W. H. Davis '12 of Bowdoin; the Hon. Joseph E. Warner '06, former speaker of the Massachusetts House: Professor W. J. V. Osterhout and Professor Zechariah Chafee of the University; Mr. John Nolen G. '05, landscape architect; and Professor N. C. Maynard of Tufts...
...Conn., June 10.--Coaches, managers, and oarsmen of all four crews enjoyed a holiday today on the "Corsair", the yacht of Mr. J. P. Morgan '89. Altogether 56 men boarded the yacht at 9 o'clock this morning and cruised as far as Green port, Long Island, and back, returning to Red Top at 6 o'clock in the evening. Although the water was rather cold, a short swim at Green port was much enjoyed...
...favor of labor unions. But I am desperately opposed to the leadership that labor unions have been having." San Francisco was formerly " the biggest and best labor union city in the world." But now it has open shop, because five years ago the unions tied up tne entire port. They resorted to violence. The result was that a million dollars was subscribed to fight the strike. "We went to the District Attorney," continued Captain Dollar, " and said to him: ' If something isn't done about this tomorrow evening you are going to be strung up to a telegraph pole.' There...
Upton Sinclair, Socialist novelist, was arrested for " breach of the peace and obstruction of traffic," at San Pedro (port of Los Angeles). There had been a strike of marine transport workers in San Pedro. It was charged to the I. W. W. Los Angeles (which probably comes nearer to being a non-union city than any other place of its size; memories of the McNamara dynamiting help to keep it so) threw a number of I. W. W. members into a prison stockade. Sinclair summoned a protest meeting on Liberty Hill, and started to read Article I of the Constitution...
...decision last week to raise wages 15%-the result of the negotiations concluded by Vice President T. V. O'Connor with the representatives of the International Seamen's Union. This raise, coupled with the adoption of the three-watch system and the eight-hour day in port, will increase operating expenses...