Word: garmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the remains of Bvron Keating-piles of news clips-were decently interred in Keating's "office," the middle drawer of Hill's desk. Hill and Eckels have only one regret: "We had a corker planned. We were going to phony up a foundation-garment account for Byron Keating. We were going to have the phony company pick a Miss Uplift from clerks behind brassiere counters...
...took over, and in moved the C.I.O.'s potent P.A.C., which has replaced Tammany as a power in Manhattan politics. All leaves and vacations were canceled for New York's 15,000 policemen. To the members of New York's garment, clothing and furriers unions-usually off on Saturdays-went orders: be on hand to greet the President, rain or shine...
...Broadway, and in Manhattan's garment district, where the crowds were thickest, the ticker tape fell, confetti and torn telephone books swirled down from the windows, pasting the wet streets with wastepaper. The parade had lasted four hours. New York police chiefs estimated the crowd at from...
...second job brought a second lesson. As an apprentice garment cutter, Waldman took part in the great cloakmakers' strike of 1910. For reporting on the employer's violation of the subsequent settlement, he was not only fired but blacklisted throughout the industry...
...whom New York Times Reviewer John Chamberlain calls "one of the great journalists of our times" has written one of the most important books about U.S. labor. Benjamin Stolberg's Tailor's Progress is a history of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (I.L.G. W.U.-membership: 310,000), a keen commentary on U.S. social politics, a detailed, sometimes brilliant biography of an outstanding social politician, I.L.G.W.U.'s President David Dubinsky...