Word: yardley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cartoonist Richard Q. Yardley of the Baltimore Sun pictured Franklin Roosevelt as an Edgar Bergen with a whole lapful of Charlie McCarthy Senators all shouting "Yes!" and "Lil Davey" Lewis (Representative David Lewis, backed by the White House against Senator Tydings) climbing up to join them...
Died. Captain George W. Yardley, 58, master of the Dollar liner President Hoover; of complications from exposure and nervous strain in the six grim days of rescue and salvage after the President Hoover ran hard aground 18 miles off Formosa last December; in San Francisco...
...length. A few hundred yards away the 503 passengers and 330 members of the crew could see tiny Hoishoto Island, and within a mile or two a handful of other Japanese islands-all small, bleak, sparsely inhabited. Early messages from the President Hoover's Captain George W. Yardley minimized the disaster but by last week, after six grim days of escape and rescue, the first group of passengers landed in Manila. What they had to say added up to one more shocking charge of undisciplined hooliganism against the U. S. Seaman, New Style...
Although the seas were heavy, Captain Yardley decided to take his passengers off by ship's boats attached to a line sent ashore. The inexperienced sailors-last minute pickups from West Coast hiring halls-according to passengers, capsized two lifeboats in shallow waters trying to land the line. Miraculously without loss of life, all passengers landed on the islands during the next 36 hours. Meantime, on board the President Hoover an unruly group of the crew-estimated from "a dozen" to "most of them"-broke into the bar and began a party. They then decided to visit the passengers...
...held in port by strikers, while 471 passengers fumed and $1,000,000 in mail and cargo waited, because tne Line refused to rehire a 25-year-old seaman named Charles Brenner. On the voyage from Honolulu Brenner headed a group of sailors who complained that Captain George Yardley had violated sea safety laws by putting out with hatches open, booms hanging overside, four lifeboats dismantled. When the ship was ready to sail from San Francisco for the Orient, 50 members of her deck-crew refused to sign on unless Seaman Brenner were hired also. The Line refused. After...