Word: garments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are more than eight million women workers in this country. At the meeting were women teachers, lawyers, salesclerks, office workers, factory workers., Government employes, representatives of the American Federation of Labor, of the International Typographical Union, of the Boot and Shoe Worker's Union, of the United Garment Workers, of the United Textile Workers, of the Women's Trade Union League...
...Francisco lawyer, proposed a resolution ousting the regular program for one morning and permitting the Woman's Party group to voice their arguments. Pandemonium at once broke forth. Miss Mary Anderson, head of the Women's Bureau (a onetime immigrant who began her career as a garment worker), pounded in vain for order. At length the resolution was voted on and she declared it lost. Later, however, a special evening session was held to hear arguments on each side, and finally a compromise motion was passed: "Whereas equality for men and women in industry is a controversial matter...
...firm one morning last week, stared in amazement at a clerk who was putting up the opening prices, for this individual was clad like no other clerk in the history of Wall Street. He had on a pale smock with a rolling collar and an open neck-a garment of the type that is popularly supposed to be the uniform of artists in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Its color was light blue. In the office, a score of clerks were visible through a glass door, bending over desks and adding machines, all accoutred in blue denim smocks; behind...
Despatches also announced that hereafter frock coats must be worn by Turkish officials at all government functions. Since the cost of such a garment aggregates nearly $175 in Angora, while the average monthly salary of a Turkish official is about $60, the Government has instituted special "pay as you wear" credit facilities...
...accustomed itself to the religious dim, it caught the gleam of many a fair garment. There were the snowy ruffs of Danish bishops. Here was a strip of crimson across an Anglican back. There was an emerald twinkling from a Bulgarian chest...