Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tied together again. After lunch at the White House, Mayor LaGuardia flew back to Manhattan and, as he explained upon landing, at 7,000 feet up in the air it suddenly occurred to him to appoint James Walker "tsar" of industrial and labor relations of Manhattan's giant cloak & suit industry. Salary: $20,000. Gravely David Dubinsky, head of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, and ardent pro-Roosevelt campaigner, hailed James Walker's "wide executive experience" as fitting him for the complex job of impartial labor arbitrator...
...weaseling and wavering around to a position where the Nazis (or Communists) may not find him hard to deal with. The nut-brown little saint-cum-politico now keeps chattering that "Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted Naziism or Fascism. At best it is merely a cloak to hide the Nazi and Fascist tendencies of imperialism. And it is to save such 'democracy' that the war is being fought! There is something hypocritical about it." Such vaguely anti-Ally sentiments from Gandhi represent, a sharp change in attitude, for up to about the time France cracked...
...International Ladies' Garment Workers Union convention in Manhattan, Sol Arian Rosenblatt, impartial chairman of the cloak and suit industry, proposed that Communists be deprived of their right to vote, said to cheering delegates: "While we may not deprive these termites in our midst of their citizenship, laws may still be enacted-and properly-to deprive them of the highest exercise of that citizenship, which is the right to vote...
...gained from his literary associations in London and Paris, Yeats became the leader of this faction-whose foes, it was agreed, were the blackguards and fools who championed moral complacence, social respectability and badly written books. Among these foes Yeats circulated bravely and ceaselessly. With his long, flowing cloak, hair, tie and pince-nez ribbon, hawk face and eagle brow, he impersonated a priestly poet so perfectly that many were won to believe that such a thing could exist. With Edward Martyn, George Moore and Lady Gregory he founded the Abbey Theatre (1904), gave the often mocking and protesting public...
Pele's lava floods sealed many of these graves, hid many relics of Hawaii's past. One royal feather cloak is left in the Bishop Museum at Honolulu; it is valued at a million dollars. It took 100 years to make such a cloak. Only feathers of a certain texture, color and length were used; one from under each wing of the o-o or mamo birds, one from the head of the male...