Word: garments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he was only five, David Daniel Kaminski, lean, red-haired son of a Russian-born garment worker, made his professional debut as a watermelon seed in a play at Brooklyn's P.S. 149. Within 25 years, the little seed had sprouted into a big U.S. buffoon called Danny Kaye. Comedian Kaye mugged, mimicked and gitgatgittled through vaudeville and such hit Broadway shows as Lady in the Dark, was carefully nourished in Sam Goldwyn's Hollywood hothouse, and had his own radio show. For ten years of playing to packed houses, he never ventured to play the biggest...
Over a loudspeaker an apologetic voice said, "Mr. Stevenson's plane will be twenty minutes late." Placards dropped and voices quieted, save for a determined and well organized group from the Garment Workers Union ("Bra Division...
...Millionaire." When the show's time ran out in midsentence, Ike remained for half a dozen more questions. The best were pitched after TV cameras clicked off. e.g., by Manhattan Garment Worker Isadore Siegal ("I didn't make up my mind yet in this election"): "You have a lot of people that are big shots in the Cabinet. I want to ask you, Mr. President, do you think of all the working people alike-like in the big business?" Said Ike: "I have three or four very successful businessmen in the Cabinet . . . the Defense Department is spending something...
VETERANS' HOME LOANS will get help from David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Dubinsky signed agreement with Chase Manhattan Bank to invest $20 million (some 10% of union reserves) in VA home mortgages...
...attack on Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME, Aug. 27 et ante). The gang, whose records range from gun-carrying to robbery to narcotics, was headed by Johnny Dio (born Dioguardi), a highly successful career hoodlum. Raised on the lower East Side, Dio at 20 was milking protection money from garment-district truckers, at 23 was sent to Sing Sing by Racket-Busting Tom Dewey, at 26 emerged to try new fields. Last spring District Attorney Frank Hogan charged Dio had been helping Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa in an attempt to control Manhattan teamsters...