Word: furriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mink coat for his wife during the war, he was astonished to hear that it would take three weeks to make. "But I can build an oceangoing ship in a week," he protested. Answered the storekeeper coldly: "Mr. Kaiser, you are a great man. I am only a furrier...
...furrier was Edwin Goodman, owner of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, a store which Edwin Goodman calls, with some reason, the "most elegant specialty shop in the world." Last week New York's W'hitneys, Sloans, Rockefellers and 850 other guests turned out to dine & dance at Manhattan's Hotel Plaza at a $50-a-plate party (the proceeds went to cancer research) to celebrate the golden anni-ersary of the store...
...also indicted Mrs. Camille DeRose, a white woman with a record of arrests, who was a former owner of the building and seems to have no direct connection with the case; Norman Silverman, a furrier, for handing out Communist pamphlets after the riots, and Erwin Konovsky, Cicero's police chief...
...many a euphemizing U.S. furrier, a skunk is not a skunk at all. It is a "genuine civet cat," "Alaska sable" or "black marten." For four years, the Federal Trade Commission has been trying to get Congress to outlaw fancy names for common furs, last week finally won out when President Truman signed such a bill. Under it, the FTC will issue a "Fur Products Name Guide," which furriers will have to obey, e.g., black Manchurian dogs will be known as black Manchurian dogs, and not as "Belgium lynx" or "black poiret...
Porter's Apprentice. Weinberg started his climb to the top when he was ten years old. One of eleven children of a Brooklyn furrier, he went to work selling papers, soon became a "flower & feather horse," i.e., a delivery boy for women's hats. He went to Wall Street during the 1907 Panic, earned $5 a day for saving places in lines outside banks that depositors thought would fail. Then he got a job ("assistant to the porter") with Goldman, Sachs...