Word: seamen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that was only the beginning. Now the union is going after E. Virgil Conway, chairman of the Seamen's Bank for Savings in New York City, who refuses to quit as a director of Stevens. The union is stirring up activist groups against Sea men's by pointing out that the bank makes most of its mortgage loans to borrowers outside metropolitan New York. The ACTWU has also enlisted political, labor and religious groups to help block the bank from opening a branch on Long Is land...
Saji's father, who started as an Osaka wine importer, began touting Scotch half a century ago. At the time, it was an exotic import favored notably by Japanese naval officers, who had picked up the taste from British seamen. He opened the first Japanese whisky distillery, using as working drawings for the equipment rough sketches of pot stills brought back from Scotland. Lighter and possessing slightly more body than most Scotch whiskies, premium 84-proof Suntory brands, which almost all Japanese drink mixed with water or soda, are deemed by many experts to be first-class blends...
...Colombian Connection, a network of farmers, smugglers, brokers and fixers that extends more than 5,000 miles from Bogota to the great markets of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. It owns an armada of ships and planes, and it has recruited an army of bush pilots, seamen, electronics experts, roustabouts and cutthroats. Though the Mafia is starting to move in on this stream of gold, the connection is still operated mainly by Colombians (some 70,000 families are believed to be involved), most of them novices or small-time entrepreneurs. It is by far the largest business in Colombia...
...coordinated by Ray Rogers, A.C.T.W.U.'s corporate campaign director, who is out to get other financiers to break their links with Stevens. His next goal is to force Mitchell, R. Manning Brown Jr., chairman of New York Life Insurance Co., and E, Virgil Conway, chairman of the Seamen's Bank for Savings in New York, to quit the Stevens board. That may not force Stevens to sign a union contract quickly, but management is under financial as well as personal pressure. The boycott may be telling. Though Stevens' sales have been rising, profits dropped...
...Customs launch bearing down on them. Blue-shirted men with bolstered revolvers play a high-intensity beam through cabins and scan decks with night-vision goggles. Near by on the Miami River, other officers crouch in a thicket of weeds, training binoculars on a rusting banana boat, watching for seamen debarking with suspicious packages. To the south at Key Largo, deputy sheriffs with high-powered rifles cruise through mangrove swamps, on the prowl for marijuana runners...