Word: garments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these sporting accessories are as much a part of Derrydale's business as the hard chairs which another publisher provides to tire unwanted callers. Originally Derrydale headquarters was a cluttered print shop in Manhattan's garment centre. After one visit, Derrydale authors flatly refused to go there. "The smells around a print shop," they objected, "are too exciting...
...last week it had no constitutional powers to charter, direct or assist its affiliates. One of the eight cofounders, David Dubinsky, thought C. I. O., the Congress, would re duce the chances of reunion with A. F. of L., therefore refused to enter the Congress with his International Ladies Garment Workers (TIME, Nov. 21). Many another believed the existence of a "permanent" rival would chasten A. F. of L.'s more pugnacious leaders and make the Federation "see light." Some of the younger Leftist militants (chiefly Longshoreman Harry Bridges, Sailor Joe Curran) wanted Leader Lewis to go beyond...
Having been suspended by A. F. of L. after joining C. I. O., and having failed to reunite the warring houses, David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers of America last week quit C. I. O. President David Dubinsky felt that John L. Lewis had done Labor peace great harm by calling a convention in Pittsburgh this week to turn the Committee for Industrial Organization into a permanent "Congress...
...biggest heel in contemporary U. S. fiction is a smart guy named Harry Bogen. This Bronx boy made good last year in Jerome Weidman's I Can Get It For You Wholesale as the slickest, crookedest trader in Manhattan's garment centre, who railroaded his partner to prison, ended up with plenty of dough, a fancy chorus girl named Martha Mills and an invincible conviction that he knew...
Harry Bogen will not be missed. If Author Weidman has any more like Harry up his sleeve, God help the good name of Manhattan's garment centre...