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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ponderous mockery Senator Norris of Nebraska picked up a yellow woolen garment from the tariff exhibit called "Grundy's store" and commenced to declaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Strange Garret | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...bond issue announced last week. The purpose of the issue of $250,000 of five-year 5% gold bonds was to improve business of the issuing company by conducting a bigger and better strike of 45,000 employes. The name of the issuing company is the International Ladies Garment Workers Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strike Bonds | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...conscious women in the U. S. were the invisible, ultimate spectators of a spectacle last week in Manhattan/s Astor Hotel. Despite the heat, a parade of mannequins marched all evening, dressed and redressed for next autumn. It was a march stolen on Paris. The fall fashion show of the Garment Retailers of America forecast the following features and trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Fall Forecast | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...York City. In protest against "sweat shops" and outside non-union contract work, 25,000 women's garment makers quit work, picketed peacefully. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt called both sides to Albany for personal conferences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: New Orleans, et al. | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...than 168 different types of wheelbarrows trundle through U. S. streets, yards, farms. To 22 types this number should be reduced. Last week the Department came to grips with men's pajamas and their standardization. On request of the nightwear manufacturers' division of the International Association of Garment Manufacturers, a conference was held at Washington to define a minimum standard measurement for male pajamas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pajamas, Male | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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