Word: portes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, seamen were picketing the Department of Commerce in Washington, but some 8,000 seamen had accepted the books. Seaman Joseph Curran, leader of the East Coast shipping strike, organized a march of 1,500 strikers from Atlantic ports to reinforce the Washington picketers. Derisive shipowners asserted that the parade of cheering, dungareed men who rode into the Nation's Capital in battered trucks was the last flicker of the East Coast strike. Never authorized by Union heads, as is the Pacific Coast strike, the Atlantic fight has been nowhere near as clear-cut. On the Pacific last...
...lucky for Elinor Glyn that she had found a way of making money, for her husband's involved affairs crashed six years before the War, and she had to sup port him and two daughters until his death in 1915. After the War, like many another English author, she went to Hollywood. There she found the pickings good, stayed nearly seven years. To her own labors there she credits such reforms in cinema sets as spittoonless ducal drawing rooms. She says she taught such stars as Valentino and Gloria Swanson how to make convincing love before a camera...
...under French influence) separate so-called independence be also given to Alexandretta. With this status "independent Alexandretta" would actually be under Dictator Kamâl Atatürk's thumb, and he wants a leased right-of-way for Turkish produce to the city of Alexandretta. vital Syrian port...
...genuineness of character. . . . This ["New York] was a Dutch colony before it was British. The Dutch strain is still strong in the city and the State. As for the pilgrims of New England, they found their first refuge in Holland, the land of toleration and it was from the port of the City of Leyden- where Princess Juliana studied law-that the ship Speedwell with her historic list of passengers set sail for Southampton, where the Mayflower awaited them. . . . Lucky are the people who can look back to such a history of toleration and strength as can the Dutch...
Commanding the Cyclone is tall, grey-eyed, 46-year-old Captain Renaud, famed in every port of the world for spectacular rescues carried out with a specially adapted Russian icebreaker and a hand-picked crew of 30 who stay on 24-hour duty, functioning with the same perfection as the Cyclone's, expensive mechanical equipment. Minor characters are stony, hare-lipped First Mate Tanguy, who broods over his wife's infidelities on shore, damns the invention of radio because it enables her to time his return; and Boatswain Kerlo, a man with a mysterious aristocratic past, who drinks...