Word: curran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next door is a paneled office filled with leather divans. There sits Curran, his hat cocked over one eye, his feet usually cocked up on the elegant, modernistic desk...
First Try. Joe Curran's game had started weeks ago. To Joe's porkchop demands his Communist associates had added some ideological parsley. It was high time "to halt the drive of shipowners . . . towards a new and more devastating world war." So Joe said blithely: "Hit the bricks June 15," knowing that 73,000 East Coast seamen would obey...
...operators waited. The wages Curran demanded would make it impossible for them to compete with foreign shipping overseas. (U.S. coastwise shipping is protected by monopoly.) And it was hard for them to believe the U.S. public would stand for the monumental subsidies that would be needed to let U.S. shipping compete with the rest of the world...
...Curran will be re-elected president hands down. The Marxist politicians who would like to control the predominantly non-Communistic but tough, restive and cynical U.S. seamen are making their drive for other key jobs. If they win what they are trying for, Curran will be brought to heel more thoroughly than he ever was before-and that was something...
Family Man. Behind him is a picture of his two-year-old son, Joe Paul, named in part for Paul Robeson, the Negro singer, whom Joe greatly admires. Joe Paul's mother is the second Mrs. Curran, Retta Toble, a husky redhead and onetime stewardess on the Grace Line. Joe was divorced from the first Mrs. Curran. The current Mrs. Curran is "the best cook in the world." Joe's favorite is Spanish rice. When he is at the office he eats at the Port Cafeteria around the corner, dining on corned beef & cabbage and strawberry ice cream...