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Summer As Seaman...
...title page of a book which any Baltimorean would pay high to read. Title: ALONG THE RIVIERA, A True and Thrilling Love Story, by Edward Cornwall. An archaic-looking woodcut showed a British sea captain relaxing under a palm tree with a Tahitian belle, while another seaman peered off a cliff through a spyglass. Heading: "George VI Looking Over His Vast Empire WITH MR. SIMPSON AT SEA And the Prime Minister Turning His Back and Howling." Publisher was billed as the Salt House Press, of No. 14 East Hamilton Street, Baltimore...
...hereditary duties of the King's Champion are to "gird himself in complete armor," ride out upon a noble charger, fling down his gauntlet, offer to fight all "liars and traitors" who asperse King Edward. With becoming English modesty and shyness, Frank Seaman Dymoke, presenting once more the 14th Century claim of his family to serve as the King's Champion, offered and requested merely to be allowed to carry the Royal Standard of England, because for the last 115 years the Dymokes have not as King's Champions girt themselves in complete armor or challenged...
...claimed that the members of the Executive Council of the International Seaman's Union, whose word is final in all matters, were "stooges of the ship-owners"; that they made their decisions without submitting them to the members of the Union, and that they had entirely disregarded the results of a referendum submitted to the seamen...
...Daily Strike Bulletin" covers all waterfront news from the port of Boston and is at present the primary news organ of the striking members, the "International Seaman's Union." Directly above the Harvard note appeared the reassuring exhortation "Brothers, we are winning the fight...