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...which has still not recognized Britain), Jardine's took inconspicuous ads in the Hong Kong papers stating that it has "ceased to act as general managers" of Ewo (Happy Harmony) Cotton Mills. Jardine's hoped also to withdraw from Ewo Breweries and from the big Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Co. Shareholders would get little for the privilege of withdrawing their managers, except cessation of paying tribute for them. So ended trading in China of the firm with the biggest British investment east of Suez...
...crowd of a thousand angry A.F.L. men marching through the mist toward Pier 39. They were armed with two-by-fours, baseball bats wrapped in newspaper and lengths of chain. As they approached the pier, the shout went up: "Let's push those goddam Commies off the wharf! Let's get our men off the ship...
...Israel: a $3,000,000 wharf project at Haifa...
...went with a friend (who paid) to Venice, and stayed on there at the ex pense ' of one and another acquaintance for five years. When money was low, he slept in open boats and fought off the big wharf rats. When it was high, he spent it crazily, keeping his own gondola and dyeing his hair red. By fits and starts, he completed another novel, The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole. Without cease he wrote venomous letters to all his old ac quaintances demanding support. To one, in 1913, he wrote pathetically in a sudden break of tone...
Billy was national head of three trade unions: the wharf laborers, the transport workers and the seamen. He talked like a radical, but by 1910 he was already demanding that Australia should have its own army & navy, and making speeches about the menace of Japan. That year, the Labor Party formed its first majority government, a cabinet consisting of two miners, a wharf lumper, a building worker, a hatter, a compositor, an engine driver and, of course, Billy Hughes. The cabinet split over World War I, and Hughes formed a national coalition government, pledged to aid Britain "to the last...