Sentences with phrase «as stevedores»

He spoke of freed slaves migrating north and finding work in factories and as stevedores.

Simón does his best to help her while working for meager wages as a stevedore and pursuing a half - hearted relationship with another woman.

With vaudeville's decline in the later 1920s, he tried attending college but dropped out of Harvard after just three months, preferring to make a living as a stevedore on the New York docks, and he also later served as a seaman on a tanker.

He worked for two years as a stevedore on a Swedish ship ferrying coal and iron ore to Europe and America.

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Called Baba Chinese, they believed in English education, could afford servants, and enjoyed a higher social standing than the poor, often illiterate, recently arrived Chinese immigrants who worked around the city's riverfront docks as lightermen, rickshaw pullers and stevedores.

Red Hook Terminals, a terminal, operator, stevedore and Cross Harbor Barge Operator, joined federal, state and local elected officials, as well as...

A product of the Indiana orphanage system, the part - Cherokee - Indian Monte Blue held down jobs ranging from stevedore to reporter before offering his services as a movie - studio handyman in the early 1910s.

He claimed the locations were drawn from memories of his time spent in numerous circuses as a youth, as a soldier serving with the U.S. Army during World War I in Europe, as a vagabond rail rider, and as a stowaway and stevedore in Asia and Australia.

As was noted in the Stevedores case -LRB-[1955] SCR 529), paragraph 2 (i) is «merely an omnibus paragraph»; it does not create any new jurisdictional powers.

The practice developed as a result of our renowned expertise in shipping and the injuries suffered by crew, passengers and stevedores.