Word: yards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of these items had been forgotten last week by officials of United Shipyards, Inc. as they prepared to launch the 1,500-ton destroyer Fanning they were building at their Staten Island yard for the U. S. Navy at a cost of $4,000,000. When the morning chosen for the launching arrived, Miss Cora Arinna Marsh of New London, Conn., great-great-granddaughter of Lieut. Nathaniel Fanning, Revolutionary naval hero dressed in her smartest clothes, journeyed to a Manhattan pier and waited to be ferried to Staten Island on an official tug. At the same time more than...
...appointed hour anxious company officials greeted Miss Marsh at the pier, expressed their regrets, told her there could be no launching, because 1,500 members of the Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers employed at the yard had most embarrassingly struck that morning, refusing either to work or go home before quitting time. They claimed their employers had failed to live up to the wage and working conditions sections of their contract. Back to New London went Miss Marsh...
...Curley arrived in Washington last week to accompany President Roosevelt to Harvard's Tercentenary, well knowing that in this election year the New Deal would have to be nice to him. He rode back to Boston on the President's special, addressed the dripping crowd in Harvard Yard (see p. 22), calling attention to the fact that Grover Cleveland honored Harvard's 250th Anniversary, Franklin Roosevelt her 300th. "Naturally both of them Democrats," added the Governor leering at Franklin Roosevelt...
Track relics include the shoe worn by Wendell Baker '86, in setting a new world's record for the 440 yard dash, the she which broke and came off 155 yards from the finish...
...look like pedants and goggle-eyed aesthetes? We still have plenty of good times, but even in our gayer moments, we're not as bad as you often hear. One of our most "horrible" pastimes is throwing water from our windows on "Colonel" Apted and his force of "Yard Cops" as they try to quell a Spring riot. But, I ask you, is such a pastime better or worse than that recorded by President Chauney in 1656, when "Three students were expelled out of the Colledge for hanging Goodman Sells dogge upon the signe post in the night...