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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...
...American people get jitters from the word "strike," the Automobile Labor Board had good cause to worry over the word. The Board, headed by Dr. Leo Wolman, went to Racine, Wis. to settle a six-week strike of 4,600 men in the Nash Motors and Seaman Body plants. It arranged an agreement on the basis of a 10% wage increase. All seemed settled when, at the last minute, strikers voted down the agreement. Meantime the Board had shuttled back to Detroit where trouble had brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase in the plants...