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...decision was quickly made. Turning to the right, he retreated a few yards into the stream, and began towing the pole upstream toward Newell. Arrived near the end of the float, he pushed the post ahead, swam to the dock, climbed nimbly out, and hoisted up his prize. Secure from the angrily shouting crowd, he turned and politely doffed his hat three times, then proceeded across the float to the far side, dragging the guerdon...
...parade grounds troops tramped up & down before exasperated sergeants getting ready for a great state review. So great was the stake in the game he was about to play that at the last minute, Foreign Minister Barthou himself decided to run down to Marseilles. He was waiting at the dock one afternoon early this week when the Jugoslavian warship hove in sight...
Behind brilliant troops and massed bands, some 20,000 welcomers jam-packed the streets around the dock. Bright with fluttering pennons, French warships crowded the harbor. Airplanes droned overhead. Slowly the Jugoslavian warship drew in and docked. Erect and grave, King Alexander marched with his entourage down the gangplank. Minister Barthou stepped forward, smiling. The two men shook hands, chatted a moment. Officials, aides, secret service men clustered around them thick as flies. The party moved toward a line of shining automobiles. Cheering hoarsely the crowd strained against the tight rope of police and troops. King and Minister stepped into...
...suits in the automobile and went for a swim. Freda did not return home. Edwards told police a half-dozen stories of accidental death and incriminating circumstances. The last version, which he gave firmly from the witness stand last week, was that Freda had slipped while stepping from the dock into a rowboat, had cracked her head on the boat. Fearing she was dead, he hit her with his blackjack, he said, because "it occurred to me that if there were only some mark on Freda's body it would look like an accident and leave...
Fundamentally, the purpose of this most recent local strike is the same as that of the San Francisco workers. Although the system of hiring dock workers, the bone of contention on the West Coast, differs somewhat in this section of the country, the Boston workmen ask for control of the shipping bureaus which hire the men. They also ask for shorter hours, higher wages, and recognition of unions of the workers' choice...