Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Morris Sigman, 51, onetime president of International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; of heart disease; in Storm Lake, Iowa...
...night out for man or beast!" grinned a Secret Service guard stamping the snow off his boots. Meanwhile Mr. Southgate, deftly casting aside his outer garment, advanced, bowed stiffly to the King, crisply said: "I have been directed by the President to extend to Your Majesty and to Her Majesty the Queen a most cordial welcome to the United States. . .. The President and Mrs. Hoover . . . are looking forward with the keenest anticipation to Your Majesties' visit to Washington...
Saul Singer at 15 was proprietor of a hardware store in Sebastopol. At 17 he was earning $4 a week in a Manhattan sweatshop. He became in due course president of the $15,000,000 Garment Centre Capital buildings, president of the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers' Protective Association. At 47 he has a rambling colonial house of 25 rooms and a large forested estate on Long Island where he employs two chauffeurs and three gardeners, owns saddle horses, a station wagon and two limousines...
...Vagabond has been sorely buffeted by the boisterous winds of the past two days, and the slanting rain which somehow seems to penetrate his every garment has caused him to reflect sadly that even the erudite and philosophically-minded race of Vagabonds are susceptible to the same bodily ills as their more mundane brethren. And you can take the Vagabond's word for it; there are better heated apartments in Cambridge than the draughty towers of Memorial Hall. Though true to his ancient abode, at times he things with envy in his heart of the steam heated warmth...
...immediate difficulties are supposed to lie in large frozen assets, consisting of loans on mortgages, real estate and buildings, loans to the garment and fur trades. The bank's exact position will not be known for a long time, but the official hope that it will be reorganized is not widely accepted...