Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor Party. The Ladies Garment Workers of pinko David Dubinsky, the United Textile Workers who put on a savage strike last year under bellicose Francis J. Gorman, a number of Federal and local unions plus the State Federations of Utah, Wisconsin and Oregon have all gone on record for an out & out Labor Party to put up a united Labor front at the ballot boxes. But the policy of Boss William Green and most of his lieutenants has been that of a ward leader: "Reward your friends and punish your enemies." At last week's meeting President Green squashed...
...Deal defenders were scarce, but their voices were heard. Publisher Frank B. Shutts of the Miami Herald flayed Roosevelt critics as shortsighted, short-memoried ingrates. William Taradash, retired Chicago garment maker, heartily approved Mr. Honeywell's suggestion that businessmen retire to politics next year- not to defeat Roosevelt but to re-elect...
...that old chair is the Vagabond's true friend and was his father's father's friend. Live in a House and have the maid change and clean and handle the furniture at will? Friends need a friend's care. The Vagabond stays! And this coat: give up a garment which has served so well and so long. No. The Vagabond is a sentimentalist. New things, modern things will not pollute him; his is the richness of the past; his the luxuries only of the mind. Come Professors, warm over your courses. The Vagabond lives again...
...Silverton, Ore., ladies of the local country club played a strip golf tournament, one garment for each hole. Unlucky Mrs. Ralph Bilyeu left the course first, reduced to a shoe and a piece of lingerie. Mrs. J. Werle who stepped to the first tee wearing six petticoats, pantaloons and a hoop skirt, won with the loss of only three petticoats...
...about "going down to Canal Street to see the canal,"* she is excited, brings along too many clothes. She arrives in a long-sleeved black dress, finds the temperature 88°. The store allows her $8 a day and carfare. She registers at the Hotel McAlpin, convenient to the garment centre. After notifying the Times and the Women's Wear Daily of her arrival, she calls on her store's resident buyer, who is simply an agent employed to keep it abreast of style changes, make emergency purchases on request. At the resident buyer's office...