Word: ross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toiled amid swaying cargo nets, blue-eyed, 50-year-old Charley Ross* looked like the prototype of all San Francisco longshoremen. He weighed 185 pounds with a bailing hook in his hip pocket; he had broad, sloping shoulders, stubby hands, and a stevedore's pugnacious attitude toward bosses and beer. When Harry Bridges told his boys to hit the bricks, Charley was always up front in the longshoremen's wall of flesh. His picketing record in the bloody dockside strife of 1934 and in the all-out strike of 1937 was perfect...
...waterfront didn't know quite what to make of all this heavenly refurbishing. Brother True Knowledge refused to accept pay checks made out to Charley Ross. He signed True Knowledge on his union card, income-tax returns and his waterfront pass, but refused to have his name legally changed, on the ground that he had not existed before his rebirth. But since longshoremen were badly needed during the war years. True Knowledge went on working despite the cries of pay clerks, wharf guards and union officials...
...Mountaineers named John H. Ross '48 as president; Robert S. McCarter '46, vice-president; Karl Wagner '46, secretary; and Lowell Chamberlain '49, treasurer...
...Ross deputized three of the strongest neurotics to meet Mollie at the Queen Elizabeth. He put her up at the Plaza, arranged parties for her and her husband, Clare Robinson, an official in the German control office in London...
...Ross had asked her over to "absorb the atmosphere" of the office. She was taking care not to absorb too much. "To please them," she says, "I'll go down there two or three days a week...