Word: waterfronts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Load of Briclcs. Amid persistent objections from Vincent Hallinan, Harry Bridges' brassy chief defense lawyer, Hod-carrier Schomaker (known on the waterfront as "Shoes") then proceeded to drop a full load of bricks on the pencil-nosed leader of the I.L.W.U...
...that he personally took up Bridges' party membership cards on two occasions and issued him new ones; he often saw Bridges pay party dues. He told of meetings between Bridges and party officials, and testified that the Communists were in complete control of the bloody 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, with Bridges taking orders from Sam Darcy, California Communist boss at the time...
...otomobiller dodging rickety, horse-drawn carts and blind beggars. Smoke-blackened industrial towers, dubbed "Ataturk's minarets," jut skyward between the graceful spires of the Ottomans. The muezzin still calls the faithful to prayer, but in place of flowing robes, he wears a Western business suit. Near the waterfront, hollow-eyed children stare from the windows of tottering wooden tenements. In the dimly lighted bar of the sleek Park Hotel, Turkish intelligence agents mingle with American engineers and Balkan refugees, drinking the latest Yankee concoction of vodka and orange juice, called a "screwdriver...
That should have been a hint to the assembled newsmen, but it escaped them. Harry Bridges was on the way back to San Francisco, presumably because he had been unable to reach a settlement of the Hawaiian waterfront strike. The newsmen, the longshoremen and Bridges stood talking idly a few minutes more. Harry was expecting a phone call, he said. Finally the airport loudspeaker blared out that Bridges' plane was loading. "Well," said Harry, "there hasn't been any phone call so here it is." He cocked a foot up on a nearby bench and began talking slowly...
...marriage with a comparative stranger. After only a few months, Laraine discovers that Ryan was once a C.P. strong-arm boy. But it is already too late: she is one of the few characters left alive in the movie. The party has not only tied up the San Francisco waterfront, but killed her husband, run a sports convertible over her brother, and pushed her prospective sister-in-law out of a window...