VL: Al Speede?

[Michael Bailey]

Google gave me 2 pdfs and a photo of a newpaper page, appatently Al Speede
was, as one might expect, a union dignitary in 1941 time frame, can't read
details on this phone...
On Oct 12, 2013 12:20 PM, "Steve Maas" <tyronemullet at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Ask.com found these... not a person, but who knows, maybe P. just got a
> kick out of it.
> Steve Maas
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> Full text of "The plundered ministers of Lincolnshire; being extracts ...
> archive.org/stream/cu31924029445248/cu31924029445248_dj...
> ... Mr Ram was agayne called for and brought out of his lodging and
> carried with al speede to the north Bulworke, and being very straytly
> pinnioned, he was layd ...
>
>
> Full text of "The tragedy of King Richard II. Edited by W.G. Clark and ...
> archive.org/stream/tragedyofkingri00shakuoft/tragedyofk...
> ... by help of the Kings friends in Wales, and Cheshire, with al speede
> possible, that they myght bee ready to assist hym agaynste the Duke, vpon
> his first arriuall,  ...
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> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 19:29:38 +0400
> From: max.nemtsov at gmail.com
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: VL: Al Speede?
>
> dear colleagues, does anyone have an idea who Al Speede was, mentioned on
> p. 291 of Vineland?
>
> " Then there was Wade, my ol' canasta partner and picket-line buddy,
> fighting shoulder to shoulder all those years, one day he went over, and we
> stayed friends, and finally you saw what'd it matter who'd be taking those
> dues off the paycheck, Al Speede's people, th' IATSE, whatever."
>
> google doesn't seem to know him
> thank you
> Mx
>
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