Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press (which for the first time in 19 days met him last week aboard the U. S. S. Houston at Balboa, C. Z.) two stories that in Ulysses' day would certainly have been referred to the oracles for interpretation: 1) At Galápagos, on shore leave, seamen from the Houston beheld two huge hawks swooping down upon a herd of wild goats. Each hawk seized a kid in its talons, started to flap away. Hurling stones at the hawks, the sailors made them drop the kids, which they took aboard the Houston as gifts...
...like everybody else in this union. I say the hell with 'em." Said Joe Curran to his 50,000 members: "Don't be played for suckers." But Joe Curran, more of a democrat than an autocrat, believes that if a majority of his seamen want to be suckers, then suckers they should be without let or hindrance from the top. Whether he and N. M. U. can make this theory stick against such laddiebucks as Fireman King & friends remains to be seen...
...last April-an agreement not to be implemented until Italy withdraws her forces from Rightist Spain-is staked Neville Chamberlain's political life. That life has become closer & closer to jeopardy recently as popular and Parliamentary indignation rose (see p. 21) over the mounting casualties among British seamen sailing supplies to Leftist Spain...
Built and maintained by public subscription or private endowment, to train Scandinavian and Polish boys in seamanship, they carried from 80 to 100 youngsters on cruises on which the boys did all the work-"hand, reef, and steer, and keep the ship up." Because there were no able-bodied seamen aboard, the ships lay at anchor for the first part of the cruise, until the boys learned to handle them. Almost all the world's navies now train sailors on sailing vessels, but only in the Baltic countries are citizens interested enough to provide such training for the merchant...
Following day, the harried Prime Minister was again forced on the floor to defend his stand. Practically every sentence he uttered was interrupted by jeers and catcalls from Opposition benches. "You are encouraging Franco to murder British seamen," taunted a man in the gallery. Attendants hustled him through the door but a second, then a third protestant took...