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...pirates who lived on them, the Communists have made smuggling operations in this area comparatively secure. Red gunboats constantly patrol the Pearl River estuary, and the oldtime speculator who ran the blockades with mixed cargoes has disappeared. The Communists ask for and get only strategic materials. Not satisfied with waterfront facilities at Macao, they have set up their own transfer port for smuggled goods on the islet of Lap Sap Mei between Macao and Hong Kong. Here, instead of lightering, overseas ships tie up at a new pier, unload into junks of sufficiently shallow draft to make the mud banks...
...week: Joseph P. Ryan, burly, grumpy "lifetime" president of the A.F.L. International Longshoremen's Association. Ryan has not only been indicted for misusing $11,390 in union funds, but has been ordered, on pain of action by his peers in the Federation, to clean up his criminal-ridden waterfront locals in the Port of New York. Nevertheless, on appearing as a witness before Tobey and his waterfront investigation committee, Joe refused to admit that he was heavy with...
...Whose job is it to keep the waterfront clean?" Ryan mumbled incautiously, later in his testimony, in an attempt to pass the buck to the cops...
Burning Issue. None of this intra-Republican squabbling was as gamy as some of the testimony against Jersey Democrats turned up during recent investigations into waterfront crime. But its effect was damaging. Republican Organization Candidate Paul L. Troast-chairman of the commission which built the famed Jersey Turnpike-got the G.O.P. nomination by only a comparatively small majority in last fortnight's gubernatorial primary. Troast was opposed by a large, impressive protest vote which may swing over to his Democratic rival in the autumn. But was corruption the burning issue in corruption-scarred New Jersey during the primary campaign...
...McGartys were Australian riffraff -and well content to be, so long as nobody tried to reform them. Hector ran the "Sword of Fortune," a pub near Sydney's waterfront, where blood flowed almost as freely as beer. Grandma lived near by, pretending to be deaf yet privy to every racket within miles. Wilma had eight children, none legitimate. Fred, during a turn at the reform school, ate a tin of nails to spite the superintendent. Clarrie was a con man and the family intellectual: "It's a sort of poetry," he said, "to read over the names...