Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parish church of Argenteuil some ten miles out from Paris, where Héloise was once Abbess, went devout Roman Catholics by the thousands last week to gaze with pious awe upon a purple woolen garment. To them it was the tunic which Christ wore on His way to Calvary and His Crucifixion; sweat had stained the fabric and on one shoulder were blood spots where the cross had rested. Now as the Holy Tunic, woven and dyed by the Virgin Mary, it was being given solemn ostension for the first time since 1900 because Good Friday commemorated the 19th...
Married. James Alexander ("Jim") Reed, 72, longtime (1911-29) U. S. Senator from Missouri; and Mrs. Nell Quinlan Donnelly, 43, wealthy garment manufacturer. Two years ago Senator Reed helped rescue his bride from kidnappers. Cried he then: "If a single hair of Mrs. Donnelly's head is harmed, I'll devote the rest of my life to catching the kidnappers." Her rise to fame began 26 years ago with experiments in selling a type of housedress ("Nelly Don") of her own design. Ever since Mrs. Reed died last year and Mrs. Donnelly divorced her husband a month later...
...this collection will agree with its editor that its author "possessed his measure of faults, and was pent in by even more limitations than usually afflict the race of politicians. But he had a soul that in its simple and unpretending fashion was truly heroic, and to touch his garment is to receive virtue...
...teamsters', engineers' and firemen's unions. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers, a strong independent organization with 130,000 members, was ready to add its numbers to the A. F. of L. But there was a hitch. A. F. of L.'s United Garment Workers demanded that Amalgamated unionists stitch no men's clothes. U. G. W.'s province...
...manufacturing unless sales keep up-which they have not. Said the American Wool & Cotton Reporter last week: "Business is better. The mills are running well. But there hasn't been anything sold now for three weeks. The mills bought raw material to get in ahead of inflation, the garment manufacturers bought piece goods for the same reason, but neither are mills buying raw material now nor garment manufacturers piece goods...