Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, with a pleasant smile," remarked Virginia's Carter Glass at a dinner of the Southern Society of New York in Manhattan last week, "once called me an unreconstructed rebel." The pleasant man, said Senator Glass, dropping the cloak of implication, was Franklin Roosevelt. Wrapping the light garment about him once more, the peppery little old Democrat then served notice that his campaign truce with the New Deal was over by enlarging as follows on an anecdote of a famed Confederate general: "Jube Early was an unreconstructed rebel to the day of his death. He used to come frequently...
...also maintain a Custom-made Department which cannot be excelled. Every garment cut and made to your individual measurements by our own designer and tailors...
...Evanston when the referee moved the ball to Minnesota's one year line and a Northwestern touchdown, it was well known that Minnesota had been playing football since 1932 without a single defeat. Coach Bernie Bierman wore Knute Rockne's mantle; to Minneapolis citizens from bellboy up, the garment even seemed a bit snug...
...Executive Council's suspension of John Lewis' United Mine Workers and its C. I. 0. allies (TIME, Aug. 17), whether organized Labor shall be fatefully split into two rival factions. Prime movers for peace have been two C. I. O. leaders David Dubinsky of International Ladies' Garment Workers and Max Zaritsky of United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers. At their instance, the A. F. of L. Executive Council last month appointed a committee of three to meet with a C. I. O. committee, discuss reconciliation. But Chairman Lewis, who had tied his fortunes securely to those of Franklin...
Fuming because Nassau Hall has been caught in the quandary of whether or not to accept a gift of five hundred dollars proffered by Mr. David Dubinsky from the International Ladies Garment Union, the Daily Princetonian has compared their University's predicament with Harvard's Hanfstaengl case. The facts appear to be that Mr. Dubinsky offered the money to replace an award of Mr. Martin W. Littleton, which the latter decided to revoke for reasons of political prejudice. But, because of the value of a conservative reputation at a time when it is conducting an endowment drive, Princeton is loth...