Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ships. Whereas Homer Martin would like to be a Strong Man and run U. A. W. according to his lights, National Maritime Union's Founder Joe Curran is a Strong Man who believes unions should run themselves. Last week hamfisted Sailor Curran was in trouble, trying to preserve his belief and his union at one & the same time...
...wait to see. It announced that Harry Lundeberg's Sailors' Union of the Pacific shortly will be chartered as the A. F. of L. union for seamen on all coasts, will join longshoremen, waterfront teamsters, licensed officers in a new Maritime Department. Eventual object is not only to run Sailor Curran off the eastern waterfronts, but to sink his western .friend and mentor, C. L O. Longshoreman Harry Bridges...
Give Me a Sailor (Paramount). Martha Raye, Bob Hope and Betty Grable in a Cinderella comedy chiefly notable because it suggests that Miss Raye's employers have begun to doubt whether the entertainment possibilities of her adenoids are inexhaustible...
...When the boy was missed, the women wailed, the men put a consecrated candle on a piece of wood, let it float to midstream. Where it stopped, Perez dived and brought up the body. They took it to the Garcias' little hut, dressed it in a shoddy blue sailor-suit, put a crown of gold paper on its head...
...might be expected, a sailing enthusiast as hearty as Author Villiers is all for it. In The Making Of a Sailor he expresses his enthusiasm in a few pages of miscellaneous facts about schools and 191 photographs of sailing vessels: These show cadets at work, studying navigation, shooting the sun, splicing, reefing (also glimpses apparently included only because they make nice pictures of the Joseph Conrad at Tahiti, Sydney, the Sargasso Sea). Typical schoolship facts: of 4,000 boys trained in the Danish schoolship Georg Stage, 2,000 are in the Danish merchant marine, most of them officers...