Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French acrobats, who accused his opponent of trying to walk a tightrope on the New Deal; in Michigan. Farmer-Laborite Senator Henrik Shipstead for his third term; in Minnesota. Republican-Democrat-Progressive-Commonwealth Hiram Johnson, over a lone Socialist; in California. Democratic Senator Royal S. Copeland over an "Arrow-collar" Republican and Socialist Norman Thomas; in New York. Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler over Republican George M. Bourquin, a onetime Federal judge who once remarked: "This court may be in error but it is never in doubt''; in Montana. Republican Senator Warren R. Austin over Democrat Fred...
...York City's Commissioner of Parks, belabored Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. It was Jew v. Jew and the lie was passed, but nobody was interested. With equally stern purpose the Republican nominee for Senator, Ernest Harold Cluett (of Troy's Cluett Peabody & Co., makers of Arrow Collars) bid for the job of Democratic Senator Copeland. If Republican Cluett had loudly trumpeted that he wore no man's collar, voters might have listened and laughed. Instead he remained very much on the inside pages because he persisted in crying: "The Federal Government is wasting our money. The country...
Hillside will have to charge about the same rents as RFC-financed Knickerbocker Village (TIME, Oct. 15), $12.50 per room per month. As a result its apartments will be taken over by white-collar tenants since the poor for whom it was intended cannot possibly pay that much. One of the prime reasons for high rents is the cost of labor on the job. At Hillside, bricklayers get $13.20 a day, plasterers and stonecutters, $12; carpenters, masons, electricians, $11.20. As every contractor knows, there can be no low-cost housing at such a wage scale for the building trades...
...definitely out of the game. But Io and behold, since that time some enterprising scribe stated that the Erie, Pa. lad was ready to go. TIME OUT was taken to task for his rashness but he can only say that when a man is reported with a separated collar bone, the chances of his playing football are no stronger than a toothpick...
...Gillette; of Cortland, N. Y. which Author Dreiser had drably copied into his book, even to giving his hero the same initials?Clyde Griffith. It was 28 years ago that Chester Gillette, raised in a sternly religious atmosphere, got a job as foreman in a rich relative's collar factory. He took up with a pretty factory girl, Grace Brown, but, by the time she became pregnant, Gillette, socially ambitious, had been taken up by another girl, an "heiress." He took Grace Brown to Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks, ostensibly to marry her. They went for a boat ride...