Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rigid as his principles. The chief of these, public ownership of utilities, he has fought for ever since he worked his way to a law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1911. While practicing law for such clients as Tacoma's Central Labor Council and the Port of Tacoma, Bone tried to clear the way for publicly owned utilities, using any political broom that came to hand. He has been a candidate on the Socialist, Triple Alliance, Farmer-Labor, Republican and Democratic tickets, a fact of which his opponents like to make capital...
From the Old Port at the foot of the Cannebiere a fireboat squirted water as far as it could, striving to wet down as many roofs as possible, but it was soon evident that the city fire department was no better than the police. Four years ago the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander together with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Marseille was "on the police." Last week, although a Marseille fire brigade chief gave his life recklessly fighting the flames, the holocaust was "on the fire department." The conflagration got completely out of hand...
...everything of value in Chinese cities likely to be taken by the Japanese, reached its spectacular climax last week at Canton. Dynamite charges carefully laid a few days before under the principal public buildings, factories and utility plants of South China's No. 1 city and No. 1 port, were touched off as the Japanese approached. Great fires sprang up, blazed over an area of several square miles. With Canton spurting smoke and flame, Chinese dynamiters wrecked the $8,000,000 Pearl River Bridge. The foreign quarter on Chameen Island was saved from catching fire only by a sudden...
...hands, seeking $5 to $10 more a month than the present scale of $3.63 to $5 daily brings them. Last word from Longshore Tsar Joseph Patrick Ryan had been that the Queen Mary would be left standing in the harbor, "a blow to the prestige of the port...
What happened when the Queen Mary came abreast of her berth at West 50th Street was no blow to the prestige of the port, but it was a mighty confirmation of the prestige of British seamanship. At 6:10 a. m. the 1,018-ft. ship lay in mid stream. Wind was down, tide was slack. Ten minutes later her 118-ft. beam was dead-centred in the 400-ft. slip between the Cunard and Italian Line piers. From the fo'c'sle head whistled two long, light heaving lines attached to ten-inch hawsers...