Word: jaffray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite story of Julia Kippen Jaffray's concerns a friend who sent her rayon dress to the cleaners and got back only buttons. The dress turned to jelly. Julia Jaffray is a Canadian-born spinster of some 50 years who has made a name for herself in prison reform as secretary of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. Miss Jaffray is also much interested in women's club work and for the past year or two she has been the spearhead of a women's club drive which last week had the rayon industry seething...
...Women's clubs as long ago as 1920 were abuzz over the matter and in 1921 the General Federation of Women's Clubs adopted a truth-in-fabrics resolution. Last year the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, through a committee headed by Miss Jaffray, sent a petition to Washington demanding that all goods have labels identifying their fibre content both so buyers would not be deceived and so they would know how to treat their purchases. During the FTC's year-long study of the matter, 2,000,000 more women sent petitions...
Retorted Miss Jaffray: "I have no knowledge of any Japanese propaganda . . . but I do not see that this story, whatever its basis, in any way affects the fairness of consumers being given full knowledge of what they...
...this was only the beginning. Before the week was out he admitted to the Press that he had asked the Norwegian Government if it would accept a new Minister.* That Minister is to be Florence Jaffray ("Daisy") Harriman, second U. S. female to have such an appointment...
...Florence Jaffray ("Daisy") Harriman, president of the Woman's National Democratic Club, outstanding Washington hostess under the New Deal...