Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 8, I read to my surprise "Little Anthony Eden was a healthily snobbish Eton schoolboy in tails, starched collar and high hat every day of the week...
...Starched collar and high hat," yes. "Snobbish," most emphatically. But "tails," no, a thousand times NO! ... A complete absence of tail is the salient feature of the Eton jacket. Its brief and ridiculous course terminates abruptly and without reason in the small of the back, and this gives it its vulgar but popular name of "Bottom-starver." This was indelibly impressed upon me well over 50 years ago when I was a schoolboy in a Lancashire factory town, and a well-meaning but misguided aunt donated an Eton jacket to help out the clothing problem of a large family...
...fresh $4,000,000,000 in his pocket and national elections still far away, President Roosevelt heard not a murmur when he announced that he might shortly spend $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 on a jobless census. Since he aimed to employ some 600,000 white-collar idle for the job, it seemed highly unlikely that the census would be conducted along the quick and economical lines of the 1917 draft at a cost of $300,000, as proposed in his column this week by United Feature Columnist Hugh Samuel Johnson...
Last week the spotlight was turned once more on such activities in the city which has not only the largest local relief population in the U.S. but also has more than its share of white-collar idle. If every man, woman & child in Providence, Birmingham, Dallas, Akron, Oklahoma City and Omaha were on relief they would approximately equal the number of persons in New York City now living on government bounties. They number 1,400,000- one-fifth the total population.* To support them costs about $20,000,000 per month, of which the city supplies onefourth, the State onefourth...
...have been giving work to a lot of white-collar people ... and 97% of all the money spent on these projects has gone for relief-only 3% for materials. We have no apologies to make for any of these projects. Most of them will be continued and there will be a lot more of the same type. We haven't done enough for the white-collar people. . . . The only critics are people who want to abolish work relief and people who are too damned dumb to appreciate the finer things of life...