Word: garment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highlighting the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers Association, Mark Starr, Educational Director of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, will be the Inglis Lecturer, speaking on "Labor Looks at Education" in Fogg Art Miseum at 8 o'clock tonight. The Jecture will be open to the public...
...Scat to the Catskills. He was born David Daniel Kaminski, son of a Russian-born garment worker named Jacob Kaminski, on Brooklyn's Bradford Street. He soon learned that the only laughter in tenements is self-created, joined "social clubs" which put on amateur theatricals. Then he and a friend named Louis Eisen formed a harmony team...
Little Amerika left the Russians cold; Amerika Illustrated was hot stuff. They liked its eye-filling pictures of Arizona deserts, TVA dams, the white steeples of a Connecticut town, Radio City, the Blue-grass country, the Senate in session, Manhattan's garment district. The magazine was written and translated in the U.S., sent to Moscow for checking - and slight censorship - by the Foreign Office, returned for printing, shipped back as a finished product...
...followed by Mrs. Millicent Rogers. Notable absence: Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart, last year's third. Notable presence: Valentina, dress designer. The rest of the top ten, all past placers: Mrs. Lawrence Tibbett, the Duchess of Windsor, Louise Macy Hopkins (whose husband Harry is chairman of Manhattan's garment industry), Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Mrs. Robert Sarnoff, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce...
Beset by these difficulties, garment makers had no idea how long it would take to get production up to 1941's 24 million suits (1945 output: eleven million suits). But they do expect that demand this winter will be greater than ever. One reason: several million veterans will need new suits and overcoats before Christmas...