Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conspiracy in restraint of trade. Back of Filene's stood Associated Merchandising Corp., largest co-operative buying organization for department stores in the East. The National Retail Dry Goods Association had made the same conspiracy charge in a letter sent to its 5,000 members. To many a dress manufacturer the Filene suit meant that a stability achieved after years of effort was in serious danger of legal upset. To retailers everywhere it was a call to arms...
...Trouble between retailers and the Guild, with its 250 dress manufacturers and affiliates in the textile and coat & suit trades, has been developing for months. It came to a head recently in a series of incidents which retailers considered a highhanded abuse of the Guild's position. One day last month at Strawbridge & Clothier's, swank Philadelphia department store, a Guild investigator became quietly uppish. She demanded that a certain dress, in her opinion a copy, be removed from the floor and that she be told the name of the manufacturer. Its managers knew they had an agreement...
...Deal days every member of the Cabinet entertained the President once a year at dinner. To save himself from putting on evening dress nine unnecessary times, Franklin Roosevelt inaugurated the custom of letting the Cabinet give him one big joint dinner. One evening last week the Cabinet solemnly assembled at the Mayflower Hotel to dine their chief. At the appointed time he did not appear. They waited and waited. At the White House Valet Irvin McDuffy was desperately turning the Presidential wardrobe inside out: the President's white pearl vest buttons could not be found. Having stewed for nearly...
...back to the Tower to dress, and, very handsome, to Dunster House to an exhibition of contemporary French paintings. The tea was very good. Thence home and a little sore at my heart that I cannot appreciate this modern art; so I to play my gramophone, and anon...
...narrowest escape I ever had from being fired was when I got fly with a little guy who detrained from the Lake Shore Limited. During Prohibition days, 'leggers came in from Canada and other points with huge bags loaded with liquor. In order to get through O.K., they'd dress like preachers, bums, and ambassadors. A redcap in not allowed to charge a passenger for services--take the tip and shut up! is the law. But bootleggers could be hijacked for a buck or more, if you were sure...