Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morris Hirshfield, a retired Brooklyn cloak & suit manufacturer, whose skies and mountains look as though they were made of herringbone or tweed, and whose quizzical lions have feminine-looking fur collars. After seeing Rousseau's painting of The Dream he was inspired to try a nude...
Stripped of its national defense cloak, Lewis has the strongest case of the three. He wants a closed shop in coal mines individually operated by six of the nation's largest steel companies, and the records of the National Defense Mediation Board and of the steel companies themselves give him a tight argument. N.D.M.B. findings show that "90 per cent of the total annual production of bituminous coal is under union-shop contracts." And voluntary check-off cards reveal that "a large majority of the (steel companies') mine workers, exceeding 95 per cent in many of the mines, now belong...
...delay the strike pending mediation. He seized this moment, opportune for him and inopportune for the country, to further his own gains. But the Mediation Board should be criticized for trying, stupidly, to maintain labor's status quo by doing nothing. Morgan and his cronies have perverted the defense cloak in order to maintain an unjust open shop. And the President, his feet grown cold since the famous 1932-33 days, has failed to force settlement on the purely union-shop basis and thus to thwart the personal ambitions of Lewis and Morgan...
...publishers have cooperated in efforts to eliminate false advertising, but they view with alarm the Government's "using the term 'false advertising' as a mask with which to cloak a very evident desire to restrict or prohibit all advertising or to subject it to Government control...
Divorced. Betty Compton Walker, 34, onetime dancer; from James J. Walker, New York City's Mayor during the Wall Street-and-nightclub era, now "tsar" of industrial and labor relations of its cloak-&-suit industry; on her second try; because of his "apparently insane tempers"; in Key West...