Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus in the most candid German fashion the Nazi election cat was extracted from the bag last week by Adolf Hitler and swung by the tail before the eyes of London statesmen. Whatever they did not see, they heard in Nazi electioneering speeches...
...picture himself and Germany as the parties injured by French, British, Italian and Belgian statesmen in finding Germany guilty at London last week of treaty violation. In these electioneering efforts der Führer was assisted by Nazi censors who dealt with incoming dispatches from London in such fashion that from reading German newsorgans one would have supposed that the British people, most British statesmen and many French people considered Germany wholly guiltless and the victim of a few French statesmen of the most hate-poisoned stamp. Actually the guilt of Germany was voted by eleven nations of the League...
...issue of March 17, the Harvard "Crimson" announced that "Unidentified Harvard students will take a vigorous part in aiding striking garment workers to picket." In true Hearst fashion, the "Crimson" then states "these students, it is said, will make a determined effort to repeat the riot at Charlestown...
Chairman and guiding spirit of the Guild is diminutive, elegant Dress Manufacturer Maurice Rentner. Mr. Rentner writes most of the descriptive copy for his own little fashion magazine, Quality Street. Born in Poland, he started his career in the Manhattan dress market as an errand boy carrying thread to shirtwaist makers. He now owns a manufacturing firm with six factories, makes dresses retailing from $55 up. Mr. Rentner says the court fight now threatening his Guild is at bottom an effort by retailers to escape the Guild's stabilizing policies on discounts and returns, that the question of style...
...more than Berlin or Rome does Moscow set the World's style for what the well-dressed Government will wear. Yet Russia has caused more conflicting political-fashion reports than any other country in the world. Patterns brought back from the Red Style Centre by contemptuous or delighted buyers have differed hugely; most seemed to have been cut on the bias. Superimposed or pieced together, however ingeniously, they made little better than a crazy quilt. But last week appeared a pattern of the U.S.S.R. that was no piecemeal snippet but cut out of whole cloth. As all political tailors...