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...second job brought a second lesson. As an apprentice garment cutter, Waldman took part in the great cloakmakers' strike of 1910. For reporting on the employer's violation of the subsequent settlement, he was not only fired but blacklisted throughout the industry...
...Cutter. Some of Sidney Hillman's journalistic biographers, notably the apostate leftist, Benjamin Stolberg, who profiled him in the Saturday Evening Post in 1940, insist that Hillman's sole talent is to coast along on the influence of his friends.* This is not wholly true, though Hillman indubitably has made his friendships work...
...first instance came in the famed Chicago garmentworkers' strike of 1910. Until then Sidney Hillman had been just an $8-a-week pants cutter. Born in Lithuania, son of a mill owner, grandson of a rabbi, he had studied Russian, absorbed some revolutionary doctrines, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1907, aged...
Anatol A. Smorodintzev, Russian discoverer of methods of combatting encephalitis and influenza, will give the annual Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine at the Harvard Medical School this afternoon. The subject of the lecture, which will be given in Amphitheater D at 5 o'clock, is "New Forms of Encephalitis in the U.S.S.R...
This is William Walton, our paratroop expert and correspondent on special assignment to cover the war in the air. He crossed to England on the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer, and you may remember his vivid story of how the Spencer Davey Jonesed a U-boat in an eight-hour battle...