Word: collars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defining the middle class as the white collar and professional group from small salaried workers up through the more prosperous business and professional men, Hicks, center of a disturbance last fall on account of his Communistic tendencies, traced the history of the bourgeoisie through the depression...
...Discrimination in occupational advertisements is sharpest against Jewish salesmen, white-collar workers, women stenographers. To combat it, many Jewish girls have taken to wearing crosses "as a protective charm...
Tall, haughty and always immaculately dressed, wearing a white mustache and a wing collar, Benedict Cobb spent much of his time after his wife died in 1929 taking long daily walks with his nurse, Miss Miriam M. Caldwell, a vivacious Virginian. In a Pittsfield hotel last Thanksgiving Day, at 89, he died. In his will, announced last week, childless Benedict Cobb, last of his family, left $250,000 to his nurse, $450,000 to hospitals, a total of $1,340,000 in specific bequests. Yale got $400,000 of that and an estimated $1,400,000 in his residuary estate...
...soldierly Duke of Gloucester, best rider-to-hounds in his family, broke his collar bone when his horse slipped on mud after ably taking a fence near famed Melton Mowbray. Result: he got out of going to Queen Maud's funeral and smooth Brother Kent had to go instead. Still rooting for the underprivileged, the Duke of Windsor asked a British workingman & family to spend a jolly Christmas with him and the Duchess at their Château La Cröe, near Cap d'Antibes, French Riviera...
...glasses ($6), a dozen champagne tumblers ($30), an incomplete set of china ($600). In 97 years Rockefeller accumulated very little to which his heirs assigned no value. But they wrote off 27,733 shares of played-out Mount Powell Mines (Montana), $922.49 deposited in closed banks, six gold-plated collar buttons...