Word: garments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspapers as they rushed into the St. Regis Hotel. Among them were Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Arthur Goldberg, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Anthony Celebrezze. Also on hand was a galaxy of diversified doers: International Ladies Garment Workers Union President David Dubinsky, Department Store Magnate Bernard Gimbel, Mrs. Ernest Hemingway, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, Writer-Pundit Theodore White, Actor Fredric March, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Artist William Walton. The President sat next to Jackie at the dinner, visited with Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, but made...
...stiff." At one point, he chortled, "Jonathan-now what kind of a name is that for The Bronx? And look at his middle name-Brewster-isn't that pathetic?" Bingham indeed seemed out of place in The Bronx, which in considerable part is a low-income land of garment workers and small shopkeepers, of tenements and Bronx cheer. A slim, silver-haired, impeccably tailored product of Groton and Yale, Bingham has been for the past three years a U.S. representative to the United Nations...
Poverty. Finally, Johnson flew to New York to address the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union on the 50th anniversary of its Health Center and became the Defender of the Downtrodden and the Crusader Against Poverty. Said he: "We will help the underprivileged and the underpaid by extending minimum wage and unemployment compensation. We have mounted an attack upon the final fortresses of poverty. We will continue the hundred years' struggle to give every American-of every race and color-equal opportunity in American society...
...coalmine employment plunged from 14,000 to 1,750; young people began leaving town at the rate of a thousand a year. In Hazleton it became the rule rather than the exception for wives to plod off to work at sewing machines in the textile and garment plants while listless, jobless husbands stayed home to keep house...
Defying the Storm. Few manufacturers bother to make such a claim. The majority of coats are clearly labeled "water resistant"-a phrase which, in translation, means: "This garment will fight the good fight in a storm, but only for a few minutes, after which the purchaser is on her own." Others, like the college girl's trusty trenchcoat, promise to hold out, but only until the first cleaning, when they must be reconditioned (at an average charge of $2, in addition to the cost of the cleaning itself). And many a veritable walking garden has come...