Word: cleaner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Memphis, Tenn., last week, went 1,500 dyers and cleaners, delegates to the twenty-second annual convention of the National Association of Dyers and Cleaners of the U. S. & Canada. To them spoke Frank A. Weller, Sharon. Pa., president of the association. Irate, President Weller talked chiefly of racketeers, recommended that the association go on record as being "unalterably opposed" to racketeering (see Letters), and refuse association membership to any dyer and cleaner known to have racketeering connections. Dyers and cleaners feel that unjust, unfavorable comment on racketeers has gravely injured the dyeing and cleaning industry...
Racketeer. The essential step in the working of an industrial racket is the formation of an association which all the local operators in the industry are invited to join. Thus a dry cleaner might find himself invited to join a local dry cleaning association, paying this association an initiation fee and annual dues. Should he refuse to join, his house might be bombed, his place of business wrecked, his person assaulted, his life taken. Minor forms of pressure would be the hurling of stench bombs, or the introduction of acids or explosives into his cleaning fluids. Should the dry cleaner...
...Tonypandy, Wales, 200 members of the Mid-Rhondda Choral Society gave first performance to a Christmas mass. It was composed by Edwin Gardner, local street cleaner, who, despite no technical knowledge of music, took inspiration from the noises of the street, worked out melodies on a wheezy home organ and turned out a mass that last week made him hero of the Rhondda coal district...
...House, say the Friendship folk. As for Mr. Hoover, he is the man who took all our bread and sugar away during the War and "et" it himself. "Just look how fat he is," say the Friendship housewives. Mrs. Abbie Simmons Fernald won't have even a Hoover vacuum cleaner in her house...
Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. (medal winner in international competition 1927): $505,553 against...