Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Principle's Victory. For two days nothing could be settled. Fantastic incidents, cloak-and-dagger rumors confused the scene. When puffy-eyed, opportunist...
...year-old International Ladies Garment Workers' Union last week pulled off another "first" in the labor movement.* I.L.G.W.U.'s 35,000 cloak & suit workers (one-eighth of its total membership) signed a new five-year contract in which the only major change was a provision for their employers to put $2,000,000 a year into an old-age insurance fund. Under the new agreement, each cloakmaker, at 65, will receive $600 a year-a good deal more than most of them can expect from Federal old-age benefits...
...class is rapidly catching on to the traditions of the NSCS. We learned (the hard way) that the coke-and-cloak room in Briggs is a W-V (S) rendezvous ONLY when no member of the USN is in the building. We guessed we were table conversation after that inauspicious morning of the first lecture when Mr. Ashler started us off with a reprimand and that dark brown look. But now after a little priming and further acquaintance with Longfellow we promise to be a good class and GIVE...
Davis took over all these agency chiefs except Donovan, who moved into the Army's mysterious Office of Strategic Services (known irreverently in Washington as "the cloak & dagger boys"). He took over some 3,000 employes, scores of jealousies and quarrels, innumerable unsolved problems of policy and procedure. One radio vice president gave up a $50,000-a-year job to join OWI, was still waiting months later to know what his duties were. Henry Paynter, onetime Hearst man, working away at his new OWI job,.was amazed when a stranger walked into his office, introduced himself as head...
...really hardheaded if we exchange our post-war surplus for goods, for peace and for improving the standards of living of so-called backward peoples. We can get more for our surplus production in this way than by any high-tariff, penny-pinching, isolationist policies which hide under the cloak of 100% Americanism...