Word: garmental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Further, the report was eight months old -and since April 1941 union membership has increased notably. And one other big factor was not considered: some of the biggest and fattest of all unions did not report-A.F. of L.'s teamsters, carpenters, electrical workers and garment workers, C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers...
...clothes. At a dinner party recently a peer's daughter triumphantly announced that she had persuaded her dressmaker to sell her a new suit without the required coupons. A politician's wife proudly reported buying a fur coat (18 coupons) with no coupons whatever (she contended the garment was secondhand because it had been worn by a mannequin...
General Weygand's retirement would add one more chapter to a life story that in the last 20 years has consisted mostly of recalls from retirement during crises-the defense of Warsaw against the Bolsheviki in 1020, when women kissed the hem of his garment and men hailed him as a savior; Chief of the French General Staff when the full implication of a reduction of the length of compulsory military service had become clear; and finally to take chief command when the Germans had won the Battle of Flanders and were waging the Battle of France. "See Weygand...
...David Dubinsky, head of the ladies' garment workers' union, who was punched in the nose last year at the New Orleans convention when he spoke out too loudly against A.F. of L. racketeering. "Saddened" Mr. Dubinsky stayed home...
...self-forgetful best, Agee has a delicacy and power that make the total effect of the book overwhelming. Even his most myopic descriptions are a poet's, as in his treatise on "overhauls," standard Southern farmworker's garment...