Word: garments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan alone were such groups as: Women Workers for Willkie; American Writers for Willkie; Non-Partisan Willkie League of New York, Inc. (Jewish Division); Democratic Businessmen for Willkie; Garment Workers for Willkie; We The People; First Voters League (Willkie committee); Committee of 10 Million Businessmen, Professionals and Farmers...
...Long, dark months of trial and tribulation lie before us. Not only many dangers but many more misfortunes, many mistakes and disappointments will surely be our lot; death and sorrow will be our companions on the journey, hardship our garment, constancy and valor our only shield...
...Back into the A. F. of L. after an absence of more than four years went David Dubinsky's powerful: 1. International Ladies Garment Workers. 2. United Textile Workers. 3. Office Workers Union. 4. Maritime Workers. 5. Brotherhood of Railway Engineers...
...explained upon landing, at 7,000 feet up in the air it suddenly occurred to him to appoint James Walker "tsar" of industrial and labor relations of Manhattan's giant cloak & suit industry. Salary: $20,000. Gravely David Dubinsky, head of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, and ardent pro-Roosevelt campaigner, hailed James Walker's "wide executive experience" as fitting him for the complex job of impartial labor arbitrator...
With these incoherent signs of an emerging U. S. couture, the garment industry was still unsure of its future last week. Anyone could make trade headlines with an idea. Three weeks ago Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune announced a $7,500 design prize with the idea of making Chicago the new Paris. London, with Worth, Stiebel, Hartnell, Lachasse and the repatriated Captain Molyneux, was after the business. Even Berlin sent photographs of eight new Nazi numbers (three of them for summer wear). And Editor Carmel Snow talked of her magazine (200,000-pulse circulation) as the logical medium...