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...Canada's west coast is the Dominion's biggest year round seaport and third biggest city with a corporate history going back only half a century. To celebrate Vancouver's 50th anniversary this year is the job of its big, shrewd, bumptious Mayor Gerald Gratton ("Gerry") McGeer. An Irish Protestant lawyer and one-time iron molder, Mayor McGeer's pet plan for Vancouver is to push it into bankruptcy to reduce interest charges. Says he: "People think they can climb into Heaven with a Bible in one hand and a foreclosure in the other. .. . The boys...
...attitude against the crafty Berlin decision." The crowd, which had already torn down an Olympic flag, surged on to listen to more speeches in the Plaza San Martin. Later it proceeded to the German Consulate to throw stones at the windows until police arrived in trucks. At Callao, Lima seaport, workmen on the docks refused to load two German vessels...
...common sense; at the second, for its truth; at the third, for its beauty. Into a crowded and shifting background, made up of hundreds of minor, typical, New England figures, Mr. Brooks has woven the lives of his heroes, picturing them in the cities, the country, the seaport towns, studying the books they read, the letters they wrote, their changing opinions as they and the times changed. He has paraphrased their own writings in building up his pictures of them, so that the book is not "original" in the usual sense of the term so much...
...nursery. Plowing down the Bay of Biscay watch officers worried. U. S. Ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers had not been heard from in Spain for four days. He was not at the summer embassy at San Sebastian but a few miles away at his own villa at the narrow little seaport of Fuenterrabia. Was he alive? The engine room telegraph rang up more revolutions...
Most of the seven million New York Citizens are wholly indifferent to the fact that their home is the world's greatest seaport. It therefore took two grade-A waterfront riots last week, which resulted in injuries for a dozen and arrests for 221, to call New Yorkers' attention to the fact that a bitter seamen's strike has been roiling New York Harbor for two months...