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Proudly disporting herself in a new dress, hat or fur, many a U. S. lady has lately been distressed to find that the first time she wore it out on a damp day the garment emitted an atrocious odor. The retail merchant to whom she returned the dress, hat or fur has usually been nonplussed. . . . Fearful of losing trade, clothing manufacturers have hushed up the situation which causes this unpleasant phenomenon. Last week in Manhattan the story of cause & cure came to light...
Girl cleaners in a Brooklyn pants factory are paid ½? for each garment they thread and sponge-a 5-min. operation. Their income: 6? per hour, $2.78 per week...
David Dubinsky, 40. a Pole from Lodz, was elected president of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, succeeding the late labor-leader Benjamin Schlesinger...
Died. Benjamin Schlesinger, 55, founder-president of potent International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; of tuberculosis; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Lean, rangy, bitterly intense. Founder Schlesinger was regarded as one of Labor's ablest leaders, his union as one of the strongest...
...Schwarzkopf began examining he negotiators. John F. ("Jafsie") Condon told how the supposed kidnappers had sent him as an earnest to secure ransom, a sleeping garment which the Lindberghs identified as the one worn by their child the night of his abduction. The fact that the child's body was found without the sleeping garment led police to believe that the man to whom "Jafsie" Condon gave $50,000 of Col. Lindbergh's money, in a Bronx cemetery on April 2, represented the actual kidnappers and killers. Mr. Condon described this man, said he "could pick...