Word: waterfront
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...waterfront didn't know quite what to make of all this heavenly refurbishing. Brother True Knowledge refused to accept pay checks made out to Charley Ross. He signed True Knowledge on his union card, income-tax returns and his waterfront pass, but refused to have his name legally changed, on the ground that he had not existed before his rebirth. But since longshoremen were badly needed during the war years. True Knowledge went on working despite the cries of pay clerks, wharf guards and union officials...
...union rank & file. But only 20 of the 3,100 longshoremen who gathered to hear his case felt that he should be allowed to keep his card. Then the union went further. It set out to cancel his registration as a longshoreman, and thus boot him off the waterfront for good...
...Company He Keeps. In Seattle, Patrolman John H. Davis was assigned to the waterfront to round up sleeping vagrants on the docks, was eventually rounded up himself and suspended for 30 days, for sleeping on the docks while on duty...
...most of what they wanted. First and most important, there will be no U.S. installations in large cities, where the services have preempted the best buildings and irritated the Filipinos, who are jealous of their new independence. The Army & Navy will have no prior rights on the Manila waterfront, will take their chance of getting dock space on equal terms with private business...
Meanwhile, crowded into green Argentine Army tents in Buenos Aires' waterfront park, they stared at the glittering skyline, at the bulging grain elevators, and the ships from half the world loading with rich Argentine produce. Patiently they bore the midsummer heat (Paraguay would be hotter), queued for food, washed themselves at one open hydrant, spoke in Plattdeutsch of husbands, sons and brothers not yet given up for lost. Sometimes at night a few gathered around an accordion to sing "Now thank we all our God, with hearts and hands and voices...