Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having reached that dubious region buried in the gloom beneath the piers and buttresses of Manhattan Bridge the abused seamen dropped anchor in a more dubious appearing rendezvous already filled with many of their fellows. Being likewise thirsty their shadow followed. The newcomers were greeted variously. As they made their way into the group subtle, inference and thinly yelled insult were cast in their direction. The crew of a flag-ship always has a lot to live down. The badinage became more irritating; the rebuttal more spirited. Finally some intrepid soul had the temerity to observe that the crew...
...Trade Union Congress, settling to business, refused to admit delegates from the Seamen's Union (suspected of being red); refused to receive a delegation of unemployed coal miners who had walked many a mile from their mine to appeal for help; and shouted down John Joseph Jones M. P., famed as "Jumping Jack Jones," when he rose to protest that the seamen and miners ought to be granted at least a hearing...
...Nigger of the Narcissus tells of such a tempest as stirred the demons of the Pacific into an oceanic Walpurgisnacht off Central America last week. Two ships reached harbor safely at Balboa, Canal Zone. The freighter William A. McKenney lost a third mate, steward, carpenter, boatswain, six seamen, two cooks, the first and chief assistant engineers who were battening down tarpaulins and were caught in the abrupt rush of an enormous wave. Only seven of the crew survived. Also reminiscent of Conrad was the cat of the liner American Star, which reappeared, wan, mewing, after an absence of two perilous...
...reported "Vermont atrocities," impartial citizens awaited developments, merely noting that before the British seamen were "imprisoned without trial" they had violated U. S. immigration laws by crossing over from Canada without passports...
Died. Herbert Kenaston Twitchell, 62, president of the Seamen's Bank for Savings (Manhattan), descendant of a Twitchell who arrived in Massachusetts in 1633; of intestinal infection; in Brooklyn...