Word: seamens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the present requirement that 65% of deck crews be able-bodied seamen be repealed...
...that the obligatory partial payment of wages to seamen while on voyage be repealed, because it encourages desertion, delays and loss of efficiency...
...institutions where, every year for 60 years, poor mothers and rich, humble- and proud alike, have laid their unwanted children in the arms of charity? Have you heard of the tarnished fame of Hell's Kitchen as it used to be? Sailors Snug Harbor, where a thousand old seamen find refuge and a little security after many storms; the Bowery Mission; the cheap, grudgingly-charitable men's hotel that Mr. Dreiser calls the "wayplace of the fallen;" old Samuel Clampitt's junkyard on 135th Street by the Harlem River, with its stuttering hunched proprietor who kept savage...
...When Conrad portrays sea characters with his great simplicity of style, they seem real and living, but when he applies this same simplicity to his landmine, he unaccountably loses that genuineness of character which makes his seamen so famous", said Mr. George E. O'Dell at luncheon in the Liberal Club yesterday when speaking on "English Realism: Galsworthy, Bennett, Conrad, and Shaw". He continued...
...regard to the nature, dangers, treatment of venereal diseases; 2) the elimination of those conditions of life which tend to foster promiscuity and the spread of disease. The committee recommends special measures for the quarantine of seaports against persons' suffering from venereal diseases, for the treatment of infected seamen and for control and treatment of mental defectives. Thus, on the whole, the committee aligns itself with the more moderate wing of the social hygiene movement in England and the United States, which places the emphasis on educational measures...