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...York to New York. Senator White of Maine had two bills before the Senate to halt the practice as injurious to U. S. shipping. U. S. seamen. He rallied supporters at a hearing before the Commerce Committee. Said David E. Grange, president of the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union: "A sailor on the beach is just like a defeated United States Senator...
...candidate-picking began. First in the field against Old Paul was Communist Ernst Thalmann, whom the late New York World used to call "Germany's Red Napoleon." His worst enemies, the German Fascists, conceded last week that leather-lunged Comrade Thalmann, once a Hamburg stevedore and later a sailor, would get at least 6,000,000 votes. Some 38,000,000 ballots will be cast...
...agreeable, cut red tape where his superior would not, was a Big Navy man. They did not remake the Navy because President Wilson believed in peace at any price, but they eliminated collusion on bids for Navy contracts, expedited the supply system, modernized the Navy yards and required every sailor to learn to swim...
...their theory the police announced that they had found Kahahawai's brown cap in the Massie home, a bloody towel in a closet, an unhinged door,.a bathroom freshly mopped, a bed stripped of sheets and a coil of new white rope such as was around the body. On Sailor Jones was found a .32-calibre revolver clip like the one used in the killing, with one cartridge missing...
Four years ago another eccentric fi burst forth upon the world from Newburyport. He was Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis, 34, a hard-boiled red-headed Irishman with close-set eyes, a screwed-up mouth and a pancake felt hat pushed down over his forehead. Onetime sailor roustabout, he started to erect a filling station on his lawn in contemptuous regard of a city zoning law. He protested at the City Hall and, having "hung one on the the Mayor's jaw," was sentenced to 60 days in the local jail. From then on he began to act like the reincarnation...