Word: garments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike the vulgar, insipid plays that have recently cashed in on Jewish themes and situations, the pre-Chanukah show at the Wilbur honestly aims at drama. But in outlining the fiscal and marital vagaries of a garment manufacturer, Mr. Leslie Weiner doesn't reach...
...help dramatize the G.O.P. get-out-the-vote drive. There he baby-sat for a mother who could not otherwise leave her three children to go out and vote. (She went straight Republican.) Then he flew to Bay City, marched up and down Washington Avenue, stopped off at a garment factory to shake the hands of the women workers, got back into his plane to head for a round of electioneering in Port Huron. In that city, he slid behind the wheel of a new Rambler and chauffeured a 75-year-old spinster to the polls. On the way, Salesman...
...threatening to bust up the alliance is Herbert Hill, 37, the N.A.A.C.P.'s labor secretary since 1951. Hill has taken to tangling with such labor leaders as A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, United Auto Workers Chief Walter Reuther and the Garment Workers' David Dubinsky. He charges that A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions practice open segregation in some cases, token integration in some others. Cries Hill: "We are going into federal court to develop a whole new body of labor laws in behalf of the Negro. The opposition of Meany, Reuther and Dubinsky to this new effort will not deter...
...Charles Street MTA stop and is well worth a browse. Emmi has assembled a unique collection of and novelty gifts from all over world, and is terrible excited above authentic Bauernkittel or peasant blouses just in from Switzerland. Emmi charges just $12.40 for this embroidered, royal blue, parka-like garment which is still worn as a native costume in Switzerland. Ideal for skiing and sailing, it also makes a fine windbreaker to wear to class over sweaters...
...match the office boom. Slum clearance projects have been marching through Harlem and the Lower East Side; low-cost housing has been supplied by organizations along the lines of the cluster of 22-story cooperative apartment houses recently erected west of Eighth Avenue by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. But the middle class has not been served so well by private builders...