Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London is full of boats, secondhand Buicks, and bouncing college girls. The Sound is the playground of sybarities. Stretching off to Long Island, the shoreline follows the water as a wet garment clings to the firm sweet limbs of a girl and the little line of foam, milky in the moon, decks her with lace...
...feminine leaders. Principal guest was Montana's Jeannette Rankin, first' woman member of the U. S. House of Representatives, the lady who cried "No!" and burst into tears when called upon to vote for War. At the speakers' table sat Mary Anderson, onetime immigrant girl and garment worker whom President Wilson appointed first Woman's Bureau Director of the Labor Department ; Genevieve Cline, first woman Federal judge (New York Customs Court) ; Annabel Mathews, first woman member of the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals; Mabel G. Reinecke, first woman collector of internal revenue (Northern Illinois) ; Jean...
...hours each. Child labor was banned. Oil. Price and production control still saw big companies and independent producers battling as fiercely as ever within this industry. They did, however, agree on a 40-hour week, at $18.80 in the North, $16 in the South. Cloak & Suit. Women's garment workers were given a 40-hour week with $14 as the minimum wage. Overtime was prohibited. To rid the industry of sweatshops all goods manufactured under the code were to be labeled NIRA.* Men's Clothes. A 40-hour week at $14 in the North, $13 in the South...
...first wife $1,000,000 for a divorce. His widow managed to wed Prince Christopher of Greece and his son married and was divorced by Princess Xenia of Russia.* Judge Moore's two prides were a stable of 70 horses and a $19,000 fur coat, most expensive garment ever worn by a U. S. male. Czar Reid specialized in parties. Their companies (which also included Diamond Match and National Biscuit) waxed great but under less exciting management. Today the tin plate trade points to the bulky, genial, 200-lb. president of McKeesport Tin Plate as its only character...
Charles M. Schwab and his Iron & Steel Institute last fortnight "gladly accepted" the Roosevelt "partnership." And last week the following industries, through their trade associations, were swinging into line: Southern Pine Manufacturers, National Retail Dry Goods Association, Merchants Ladies' Garment Association, Musical Merchandise Industry, Marketing Devices Industry, National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Independent Petroleum Association of America, Anthracite Institute, American Oil Burner Association...