Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open water, a strong wind was whipping up the sea. For four hours, Angler Howell tried to reel his tuna in before handing his 26-oz. hickory rod to his companion, Arthur De Cordova. All through that night, De Cordova, Howell, Captain Thompson and a seaman struggled with the tuna. When dawn broke the great fish was as strong as ever, still swimming away from the boat and resisting all efforts to turn him. Presently a skiff from the Thalia brought food to the men in the launch. They took turns tugging at their tuna all that day when...
Cuba. Provisional President Carlos Mendieta finished his speech at a naval officers' luncheon at Tiscornia Camp across the bay from Havana and sat down. BAM! A huge hole opened in the wall under a stairway, blew a great wind across the room. A seaman and a Navy paymaster stood directly between Mendieta and the stairway. The blast killed both, scratched Mendieta's left hand and wounded a scattering of Cuban officialdom. Said President Mendieta: "It was a terrible surprise but just one of those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns...
Fortnight ago. Brooklyn police picked up a drunk who gave his name as Tom Jensen. He said he was a Danish seaman. While he was serving his ten days in jail, his fingerprints were sent to the Department of Justice's division of criminal identification in Washington. When he was let out, he was promptly clapped back in again, at the request of the Federal Government, as a fugitive from justice...
...Navy. Its Chief of Operations, who corresponds to the Army's Chief of Staff, can, if he is capable, key the whole service up to a zestful pitch of efficiency. But it often remains for the Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, as the nation's first seaman, to leave the most memorable stamp on the Navy. Admiral Richard Henry Leigh's regime as Commander-in-Chief (1932-33) is remembered for the mass operations around Hawaii at a critical time in the Far East (TIME, Feb. 13, 1933).* Admiral Sellers' term (1933-34), will...
...Racine, Wis. For the second time in a fortnight, differences between representatives of the 4,600 workers and their employers were patched up, only to be renewed again. Nash workers, their pay difficulties straightened out, again raised the issue that they could not go back to work until Seaman Body Corp. (manufacturers of Nash bodies) settled with its workers. In the Detroit area, a strike threatened by the Mechanics Educational Society (tool & die makers) was called. More than 3,000 tool & die men walked out of 100 small job shops which would not grant their demands for a 20% wage...