Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME accept a correction on a trivial statement made in the biography of Harry Bridges (TIME, July 19)-"his wife . . . fell out of a window while hanging out the wash." She was not hanging out the wash, but bringing...
...Dictatorship." Harry Bridges, president of the Pacific Coast District of the International Longshoremen's Association and biggest figure in maritime labor on the Pacific Coast, leads the drive of C.I.O. in the West. In Tacoma, Wash, the Long shoremen's union not only refused to join C.I.O. but wrote to all I.L.A. locals on the Coast...
...waiting. He directed the transshipment of his okapi (named, by now, Congo) to a U. S.-bound vessel. During the ten-day voyage, Congo was a source of continual delight. Dr. Blair observed with satisfaction that his tongue was so long (14 in.) that he used it to wash out his ears and flick flies from his withers. Congo immediately took to Dr. Blair, who three times a day fed him bananas, cabbages, carrots, sweet potatoes, condensed milk. Except for three rough days, Congo took his food with relish. Normally okapis are browsers. They eat tender shoots from the tops...
Last week in Seattle, Wash., where liquor may be legally purchased only in State-owned stores, the third act closed on a little drama reminiscent of Prohibition's bloody reign...
...five-room house, for which he will pay $35 per month. He is behind on the installments on a two-year-old Ford, has about finished paying off $600 of hospital and doctor bills incurred for his wife, who fell out of a window while hanging out the wash. Harry Bridges himself has been in the hospital twice in the last two years for stomach ulcers...