Word: collar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speed, passed a measure granting as much money ($1,735,000,000) as Franklin Roosevelt asked for but switching $125,000,000 from WPA's share to PWA, for continuance of heavy construction projects (TIME, June 26). The measure also killed the Federal Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah Bankhead and other theatrical talent created a diversion in behalf of restoring FTP. Secretary Ickes climbed Capitol Hill to ask $500,000,000 outright...
...Federal Theatre Project was killed (Illinois' Republican Dirksen buried it on the House floor by reading some of its play titles : Lend Me Your Husband, The Mayor and the Manicurist, Up in Mabel's Room, Did Adam Sin?, A New Deal for Mary). Other white-collar projects may be continued only if "sponsored" (partly paid for) by communities...
...Full dress suits, in color, minus collar & tie. Better still, an adaptation of the bullfighter's cock-o'-the-walk costume...
First she polled Harvard and Yale boys, businessmen, wearers of hats, heavy shoes, tight-woven woolens, collars & ties in the dog days. These gentlemen vowed they were quite comfortable, would not admit that their clothes were archaic. Horrified, Hawes (who once fired her obstetrician because he wore a stiff collar) concluded that such clothes were indeed their proper wear...
Early Days. In the early, rough-&-tumble days of flying Glenn Martin was an incongruous figure. Solemn as a preacher, he dressed in black with a tall white collar, wore a businesslike helmet when he flew. Other pinfeather fliers, who turned their checkered caps backward when they climbed into their planes, called him "The Dude...