Word: sailor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy jinx is broken at last. Before an enthusiastic capacity crowd in the indoor Athletic Building the grapplers held the sailor-boys to a 16 to 16 tie Saturday afternoon while the Freshmen downed Governor Dummer...
...crowd collected to stare, remained to mutter. A neighboring department store broke out a huge U. S. flag. Several young men climbed the fire escape to the floor above the German Consulate. A U. S. sailor wriggled down to the staff, slashed at the flag with a knife. Another sailor grabbed a fold, pulled. Nazi clerks leaned out to haul the flag to safety. The boys held on; the flag ripped across the swastika. The boys climbed down. Two riot calls brought carloads of police. The crowd cheered. The sailors were pinched. The building canceled the consulate's lease...
...control of Byberry away from the city, put it under the charge of Dr. Herbert Codey Woolley, a well-known psychiatrist. Everyone felt better about Byberry. But last week Philadelphia papers headlined Byberry again as a House of Horrors. Two attendants, one a middleweight boxer, the other an ex-sailor, were accused of beating patients to death. The boxer confessed to slugging two; the ex-sailor, one. Another attendant was held as an accessory. Neither Dr. Woolley nor any of the staff members were held, although they may be called up for questioning, for they had promptly reported the deaths...
...bright & early next day, the Ambassador talked a sailor's language to the press. Of course the U. S. would aid Britain to the maximum "over and above our own defense requirements." Let no European fall for the story that the U. S. had sold Britain scrap iron in the 50 destroyers; said he flatly: there are "a lot of good fights left in them." Could France count on effective aid from the U. S.? "Yes, surely . . . especially the children, sick and aged. What has been done until now is almost nothing ... in relation to what the United States...
...know something, he says so. His book describes in great detail the immensely ramified activities of the "underground" Communist movement. It describes how strikes in Europe were fomented, and sometimes broken by the fomenter when they conflicted with Soviet policy. It describes the methods whereby a single experienced Communist sailor can disrupt a whole ship by sabotage. It describes how the 1923 Communist uprising in Germany (in which Valtin led a detachment) was organized, then called off by Moscow after fighting began...