Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industry's grand hotel is Boston Financier Frederick Henry Prince, who is board chairman of Union Stockyard & Transit Co. (and of meat-packing Armour & Co.). Mr. Prince's bawling, squealing, baaing guests might have been unhappy indeed had not Chicago police stood by to protect their white-collar attendants (see cut). Having won an NLRB election among the handlers by 281 to 280, C. I. O.'s union called the strike to speed up contract talk with the stockyard company's Vice President William J. O'Connor and General Manager Orvis T. Henkle. Negro Henry...
...fumbled with his black tie. This was always the hardest part of it--this and getting used to the bite of the collar button as it dug into his throat. But he didn't really mind too much. The thing had to be done, and it was only once in three years. He looked over the letter lying on his desk. "Dear Vag: Will you give the Associates and Tutors and pleasure of your company at the head table at the October House Dinner.... We usually wear dinner coats, but that is by no means essential...
Meanwhile, Hellzapoppin was up to new tricks. It: 1) scheduled midnight performances; 2) offered cut-rate balcony seats; 3) provided free seats to those who could collar chickens and pigs it let loose in Times Square. Thanks to pigs and Winchell, Hellzapoppin turned into...
...polo shirt open at the throat. The headwaiter, horrified, rushed up to him, murmured apologetically: "Sorry, but you can't sit here like that. You'll have to wear a necktie. I'll have the waiter bring some in from our stock." Huffed, Capra buttoned the collar of his shirt around his neck. The headwaiter let him stay...
Until last week, banking was one of the few U. S. businesses which had not had a run-in with NLRB. But C. I. 0. has been trying to enroll some 7,200 employes of big, 494-branched Bank of America in its white-collar United Office & Professional Workers union. One Edward C. Washer, in a Los Angeles branch of the bank, was an active organizer last year. He was fired in November. Last week NLRB's Trial Examiner R. N. Denham ordered Employe Washer reinstated with back pay, ordered Bank of America-which it pronounced engaged in interstate...