Word: waterfront
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bello and friends-notably Countess Dorothy di Frasso, a nurse named Evelyn Husby, and Richard E. Fulley, a cousin of Anthony Eden-could hunt for gold on Cocos Island, some 300 miles southwest of Costa Rica. Hoffmann signed on a crew consisting of three able-bodied seamen, a few waterfront hangers-on, some fine-looking NYA boys from Long Beach, some men who said they were engineers. In quick succession the Metha Nelson rammed another vessel, caromed off a breakwater, burned out a bearing. Bello did not mind; everything, he said, was going to be all right. Then tempers (except...
...commission on British labor practice found effective associations of British employers dealing with unions on a regional basis, observed: "It is evident that the employers learned a good deal as they went along." Having enrolled established associations of wholesalers, hotel operators, building owners and managers, automobile dealers, general contractors, waterfront employers and draymen, Mr. Lapham's council announced its intention of becoming "the recognized spokesman in a broad sense for all employers, whether group or individual...
Replaced and disbanded was the less inclusive Industrial Association of San Francisco, long feared and hated by Labor. At the council's head will be hardheaded Almon E. Roth, now president of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association, who like many another Coast employer has learned to deal with but not to love organized labor...
...Waterfront riffraff and cheap gangsters of all nations, plus open and tawdry vice, are typical of famed Marseille, but so too is the soaring, indomitable spirit of its sunny French citizens. The true Marseillais is bold, humorous, boastful and greathearted. Last week stout, jovial, bearded Louis Frichet, one of the most popular citizens of jostling, neighborly Marseille, became the hero of a holocaust which made news the world around...
Over the historic old waterfront of Cadiz, scene of one of Columbus's departures for the New World, Andalusians who had thrown few bouquets at the Italians when they arrived 20 months ago cried "Viva Italia! Viva Mussolini!" as 4,000 of the departing Latins gave a farewell salute to tough, boastful General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Commander of the Rightist Southern Army...