Word: transport
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upton Sinclair, Socialist novelist, was arrested for " breach of the peace and obstruction of traffic," at San Pedro (port of Los Angeles). There had been a strike of marine transport workers in San Pedro. It was charged to the I. W. W. Los Angeles (which probably comes nearer to being a non-union city than any other place of its size; memories of the McNamara dynamiting help to keep it so) threw a number of I. W. W. members into a prison stockade. Sinclair summoned a protest meeting on Liberty Hill, and started to read Article I of the Constitution...
Shocking as an occasional disaster is, the margin of safety is large and increasing. And public confidence appears unshaken. The day after the accident 13 transport machines traveled over the same airway, carrying practically a full complement of 70 passengers...
...present these documents are stored in a steel vault with a double glass front in the library of the State Department. The last session of Congress appropriated $12,000 to transport the two most famous state papers in the history of the United States to a marble and glass shrine which will be placed in the main hall of the Library...
...Franklin E. Parker Jr. '18, president of the CRIMSON in 1918 and chairman of the dinner, introduced Mr. Jerome D. Greene as first speaker. Mr. Greene, who was actively engaged for the government in the American Allied Transport Council and the Reparations Commission and is at present an Overseer of the University, told of his early experiences on the University paper...
...toastmaster at the dinner is Mr. Franklin E. Parker Jr. '18, president of the CRIMSON in 1918, who will introduce Mr. Jerome D. Greene '96, the first speaker. Mr. Greene, who was secretary for the American Section of the Allied Maritime Transport Council in 1918 and for the Reparations Commission at the Peace Conference in 1919 and who has been actively connected with the University for many years, now being an Overseer, was president of the CRIMSON...