Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deserve so much as a nickel ride on a street car much less a voyage deluxe to the Old World. . . . This, then, should result in the manufacture and sale in large quantities of skates, skis, boots and costumes . . . which . . . will be provided by our Jewish neighbors in the garment trade...
...always to appraise them judiciously, is underrated for lack of appreciation of what the youth conceives to be the basic purpose of writing. The question in its last analysis, is one's choice between the shown shoddy road of ultra extreme but passing fashion and the genuine all-wool garment of conservative...
...Bulletin throws off the garment of gloom for the moment and indulges in a little humor over the future opening of a similar box by President Conant on September 8, 1936, which was sealed by President Josiah Quincy...
...basis of crafts. This is not going to suffice in those industries where the line between the craft and the unskilled workers is not discernible." Miner Lewis claimed to have lined up not only his own huge industrial union but the International Typographical Union, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Ladies' Garment Workers, Mine, Mill & Smelter Union, milliners, rubber and brewery workers. However, he was at pains to disclaim any ambition to unseat William Green, vowed that the quarrel would be conducted within the Federation...
...constitution, outlaw Communist members (TIME, Oct. 21). At a Federation convention the 525 delegates cast some 30,000 votes. Of these the miners control some 4,000. Leader Lewis picked up another 7,000 from unions like David Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers, demonstrated so thoroughly that the Red hunt amendment could not get the two-thirds majority needed for passage that when it was brought out on the convention floor most of the sting had been removed. As passed, it provided that Communists might be members and fulfill all functions...