Word: tusitala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will rate a salute from every man in the school (". . . and not with a sneer on his face, either"). Teachers will be six commissioned officers and 30 petty officers from the Coast Guard cutter service. For training ships the men will have two famous windjammers-the square-rigged Tusitala, once the hobby of retired Steelman James A. Farrell, and the Joseph Conrad, in which Author Alan Villiers used to sail all over the world-and the Coast Guard patrol boat Faunce. Later, the freighter Edgemoor, now being reconditioned, will be added to the school equipment. Training courses as planned will...
...labor law for all maritime labor, including longshoremen, on the lines of the Railway Labor Act with a mediation board. He also recommends a Government training school for seamen to be run by the Coast Guard. James A. Farrell, onetime president of U. S. Steel Corp., has offered his Tusitala, a full-rigged ship, as a training ship...
Always fascinated by the sea, he induced the Steel company to build its own fleet. He himself owns & operates the Tusitala (Samoan for Tale Bearer), one of the last clipper ships under the U. S. flag...