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...waterfront of Bilbao last week, city flags still hung from flagstaffs flaunting the city's 700-year motto: INVINCIBLE. The quayside was under fire from Rightist artillery, only six miles away a terrific artillery and aerial barrage had blown a gaping hole in el gallo (the rooster), Bilbao's vaunted triple iron ring of trenches. Rightist troops and trucks were pouring through. Shouted an exultant staff officer above the roaring of field guns: ''Bilbao is ours already, we can take it today, tomorrow, or whenever we want...
...Leader Bridges could organize the warehousemen, he would drive a wedge inland and stand a good chance of becoming the biggest Labor figure in the West. If Leader Beck could organize the warehousemen he would pin Bridges to the waterfront. No holds have been barred in this battle for supremacy. And to fight Leader Beck who has the A. F. of L. behind him, Leader Bridges has turned to aid from...
...Pacific Coast, however, Joseph P. Ryan has no control over I.L.A. Its leadership there belongs to Harry Bridges who is an ally of the C.I.O. Thus the Stockton strike was an attempt of Radical Harry Bridges to extend his labor leadership back from San Francisco's waterfront. At Stockton his sphere of influence collided with that of the Coast's other big labor leader, David Beck, vice president of the A.F. of L.'s Teamsters Union and the kingpin of labor in Seattle, where he boasts of having organized "everything on wheels" including automobile salesmen...
Chace has had long experience here stroking; he was captain of his Freshman eight; and last season he stroked the Varsity in their impressive victory over Yale. Those were the Whiteside days, however, and rowing on the Harvard waterfront has changed since then...
...Whistles, and last week when the Conte Rosso ploughed into Manila Bay all the bells in the city, all the craft in the Bay, including 15 "floating hotels" for Congress pilgrims, set up a prodigious din while 25,000 Filipinos cheered on the Luneta, the city's spacious waterfront park. Welcomed by Manila's Archbishop Michael J. O'Doherty, Mayor Juan Posadas, and the pious Vice President of the Commonwealth, Sergio Osmeña, Papal Legate Dougherty wept happily. Although many U. S. Catholics consider him a self- possessed, even arrogant man, his voice choked when...