Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sidetrack. In Philadelphia, James Ware, who took a summer job in 1894 as a railroad waiter, to help pay his way through medical school, got a 50-year service button from the railroad...
...Pressing a Button. From the German press came a first detailed story by a front reporter of the robot bombs' launchings. The German nicknames for Vi: "Paula" and "Pauline." Soldiers often wrote messages on the missiles: "Revenge for Frankfort...
...Button, Button. In Miles City, Mont., Frank Smith got out of his car, stopped, picked up a button. He soon let go-attached to it were seven rattles and a rattlesnake...
...strike started when 16 female button sewers at a Hart Schaffner & Marx factory, earning $3 to $8 a week, walked out over a 4? reduction in piecework pay. (One of the 16 strikers was round-faced, Russian-born Bessie Abramovitz, whom Hillman later married.) For three weeks, more & more workers left their sweatshops until the 16 strikers had become 41,000. Each night there were meetings, usually at Hull House, addressed by Welfare Worker Jane Addams, Lawyer Clarence Darrow, and the strike leaders...
...Samuel George Barker, a Jefferson, Iowa dentist, was happy as an autograph collector who has just discovered a Button Gwinnett in his own attic. In last week's Journal of the American Dental Association, he told all about...