Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Until the last chap ter, the Senate's had been a different and duller story. For three stodgy weeks that body had shifted uneasily about in the un accustomed formal garments of full-dress debate. But last week the Senate, almost to a man, happily shucked its tight collar, stripped off the white gloves. The nodding press gallery awoke, and in five days of catch-as-catch-can heckling the Senate finished its task, passed the Pittman Bill after 26 days and 1,000,000 words of the Great Debate...
...important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters, whooping it up in folk-song and endearing himself to the no-collar vote...
...N.B.E.R.'s financial research workshop-an estate (next door to Arturo Toscanini), in swank Riverdale, N. Y., with tennis court, swimming pool, view of the Hudson. Handed to them was a stack of raw material: statistics on the purchases of 60,000 U. S. families, collected by white-collar WPAsters...
...Keller. After putting himself through a business school-on money scraped together in such variegated activities as raising squabs and working in factories-he spent two years in the British Isles as secretary to a lecturer, returned at 21 convinced that his future lay not in a white collar but in overalls. At the Westinghouse Machine Co. plant in Pittsburgh he found what he wanted: two years apprenticeship as a machinist at 20? an hour. And in Detroit he found experience in half-a-dozen grimy shops...
...stammtisch (regular customers' table) sipping their brandy-and-lemon Nikolaevskys long after Berlin's 1 a.m. war curfew, when other restaurants closed. As a special favor the Government gave them laborers' rations: two pounds of meat a week, instead of the single pound allotted to white-collar workers...