Word: garments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vest was presented to the President, who, however, has not been seen to wear it. It is a Christmas gift, a home-tailored garment, from one Joe Stinson, of Rumsey, Ky. It is neatly pieced together from strips of the skin of a seven-foot rattlesnake. Five rattles went with the offering, in a pocket...
After 19 weeks the Manhattan Garment strike ended amicably, and last week "outsiders" found the blocks from 14th Street to 23rd Street between Fourth and Sixth Avenues a little less congested by arguing workers...
...International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit & Skirt Manufacturers Inc. signed a 36-clause agreement which binds the employes to give full work for their pay and the employers to have no business relation with non-union shops...
...refresh herself prior to visiting the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, Queen Marie hastened to the Chicago Racquet Club, donned a modish bathing garment, swam with vigor for ten minutes in the pool. Hastening to Gary, she viewed the mechanical operations of steel working from a glass-inclosed moving observation platform, but descended from it to stand beside the thrilling cascades of moulten metal. Amid the glare of the furnaces her regal and commanding presence was revealed at last in an approximately iridescent milieu...
...Grand Island, Neb., a Nazarene preacher's daughter obtained a decision from State Attorney General O. S. Spillman that the Grand Island school board could not compel her to participate in gymnasium classes, least of all compel her while doing so to wear a garment discountenanced by her father's church: bloomers...