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...morning the 81,235-ton Queen Mary sailed into New York Bay last week with day breaking behind her, no hoarse flurry of twelve tugs fumed out to ease her into her mid-Manhattan berth. For three days the harbor's 300 tugs had been tied up by a strike of 2,000 tug hands, seeking $5 to $10 more a month than the present scale of $3.63 to $5 daily brings them. Last word from Longshore Tsar Joseph Patrick Ryan had been that the Queen Mary would be left standing in the harbor, "a blow to the prestige...
Hankow remained calm last week, while her foreign language radio program "Voice of China" radiated confidence in Chinese arms. Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek appealed to Chinese Manchukuoans to transform that Japanese-dominated state into a "graveyard for the Japanese." About 4,500 junks, including sailing boats, tug boats and sampans-capable of transporting 80,000 tons freight-manned by 16,000 boatmen earning 30? a day, worked feverishly to complete the evacuation of the three Wuhan cities (Hankow, Hanyang, Wuchang...
...Cubs front office, under the Wrigley regime, it has become a deep-seated habit. Once (in 1925), the Cubs played under three different managers in one season. In 1930, Joe McCarthy (now manager of the New York Yankees) was replaced by Rogers Hornsby in the midst of a pennant tug of war. In 1932 Manager Hornsby (a $250,000 investment) was suddenly supplanted by First Baseman Charlie Grimm. Because Manager Grimm went on to win the pennant in 1932, Owner Wrigley last week had an excellent precedent to follow. Catcher Hartnett was the necessary spark plug...
...salary he has collected plus $8,046.12 expenses. Mr. Roy was to get another $14,361.11 for services he was unable to perform, plus $5,638.89 for the balance of his term, plus $3,118.30 for expenses. Both will be paid the expenses incurred in their tug-of-war (but not more than $2,000 apiece). In the cloakroom afterward, undaunted Arthur Byron Jenks announced that five months hence he would run again for Congress against Alphonse...
John Pierpont Morgan sued Manhattan's Sound & Harbor Towing Corp. for $3,500. Reason: A scow towed by a tug bumped his 343-foot, turboelectric yacht, Corsair. Banker Morgan accused the tugboat pilot of 1) negligence, 2) attempting to leave the scene of the accident...