Word: transporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president of the CRIMSON in 1918, will act as toastmaster of the evening and will introduce Mr. Jerome D. Greene '96 as first speaker of the evening. Mr. Greene was president of the University paper in his graduating year, 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 is now an Overseer of the University...
...only interesting thing about the " nationwide" strike called by the Marine Transport Workers' Union to tie up shipping on the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Coast ports, is that it is being run by the I. W. W. From all reports the strike itself is a failure: San Francisco, Seattle, San Pedro, New York, Boston, Baltimore and other big shipping centers assert that their vessels are hardly affected...
What was once the German ship Prince Eitel Friedrich, and is now the transport U. S. Grant, sailed out of New York Harbor for Porto Rico, the Panama Canal, San Francisco and Honolulu. Aboard were 19 Army officers and 980 troops destined for various posts. In addition, the passengers included Secretary of War Weeks, Mrs. Weeks and 27 Senators and Representatives, most of them with their wives, a few with their children. Each of the civilians will pay $2 a day for his food, just as Army officers do aboard transports. Otherwise, the trip will be free...
When the Grant reaches San Francisco, the Secretary and most of his party will transfer to the transport Cambria and go on to Alaska...
...Form No. 940, approved Jan. 23, 1915. U. S. Army transport. Name to be inserted on card." Here, according to the Germans, is proof positive that the United States was prepared to enter the war in January...