Word: farah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Farah Diba, an Iranian Girl Scout, and basketball captain of her Teheran school, married the Shah of Iran in 1959, Iranian women were traditionally considered to have "more hair than brains." However, by 1963 Farah's influence on the Peacock Throne was obviously being felt: the Shah gave women the vote. Winding up a private visit to Paris, Empress Farah, 35, stopped off to see the latest portrait of herself, a larger-than-life work by French Painter Edouard Mac'Avoy. The background shows Iran happily progressing toward the millennium: ancient columns mingling with oil derricks, children...
...Farah made us work like animals in a prison and thought they had done us a favor by giving us jobs," Lozana said. She said the average hourly wage was $1.70 and described Farah policies which restrict bathroom time and forbid conversation during working hours...
Three hundred supporters of the Chicano labor movement in California and Texas marched through downtown Boston early Saturday afternoon to publicize the national boycott of Farah slacks...
After the march, the demonstrators and some curious shoppers proceeded to Boston Common where Elvira Lozana described the labor conditions which led to the 17-month strike against Farah by nearly 3000 non-union Chicana women. Lozana worked in one of Farah's four El Paso, Texas, plants for five years...
...Farah's union-busting tactics must continue to be blocked. Boston's Humberto Cardinal Medieros and the leaders of the Massachusetts state federations of Jews and Protestants have endorsed the boycott. The boycott must continue...