Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...self-defense. The National Guard and other relief agencies began sending 25,000 inhabitants to Chillicothe and Columbus. "The Bottoms'' of Cincinnati is the wholesale and tenement district from which the rest of the town, perched like Rome on seven hills, lifts the hem of its municipal garment. Last week, after an unprecedented rainfall of ten in. in ten days, as the river stage went to 71, then 73, then 78 ft., The Bottoms was under from one to 20 ft. of water. Schools in the rest of town were closed so 40,000 homeless could be bedded...
...further racket strokes had been less spectacular and conclusive. He had kept his trial record perfect: 52 indictments, 52 convictions. Proceeding with extreme secrecy and caution, refusing to strike until he felt sure he had enough evidence to convict, he had made public beginnings against rackets in the trucking, garment, used-brick and poultry industries. Finding the notorious poultry racket apparently impregnable, he had succeeded in indicting its reputed boss, Arthur ("Tootsie") Herbert, and two of his lieutenants on charges of embezzling from the labor union which they controlled. Policy-Week before last the patient Dewey researches bore fruit...
...agent of a local of A. F. of L.'s International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers, whose President Daniel J. Tobin was chairman of the Democratic Labor Committee in last year's Presidential campaign. His electrical and baking cases, along with his moves against poultry, trucking, garment and used-brick rackets, typified the kind of thing that Prosecutor Dewey is really after-the racket that preys on law-abiding businessmen. But not until the restaurant racket trial began last week did he enter in open court the kind of battle whose outcome would indicate eventual success...
...wish you could do something to help us girls. You are the only recourse we have left. We are working in a garment factory and up to a month ago our minimum wages were $n a week. Today 200 of us girls have been cut down to $4, $5 and $6 a week. Please send someone from Washington to restore our minimum wage so we can live...
...James W. Gerard, one-time Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, one-time Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen, Roosevelt Friend Frank C. Walker, such reigning Labor Union chiefs as Sidney Hillman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers), Joseph P. Ryan (International Longshoremen), Max Zaritsky (United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers), David Dubinsky (International Ladies' Garment Workers). Also present were Governor Lehman and the past President of the New York college, not this year a member, James Aloysius Farley...