Word: laundrymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only when the first Freshman slipped past him into the clutches of 'Poon salesmen and laundrymen did Vag realize that Fall had come again, and that he was collaring Freshmen for subscriptions to his paper once more. It made him think of the distant days when he first made the voyage through Mem Hall--learning how to sign his name on the way, signing up for all the periodicals. He remembered his initial trip across the Square, how he had wanted to take a taxi back to the Yard; he recalled the sign he'd put on his door warning...
...sell it; Crocker built a spite fence 40 feet high, completely enclosing his neighbor's home. Dennis Kearney led a mob to tea down the fence and hang Crocker from the flagpole atop his 76-foot tower, but the mob decided to burn Chinese laundries and beat up laundrymen instead...
After eight weeks of striking, during which they made bishops attending an Episcopal convention go without clean linen, laundrymen in Cincinnati hit upon a new weapon to bring their bosses to terms: they opened two co-operative laundries...
...disintegrating in the tub, inferior materials cost laundrymen some $6,000,000 a year; dry-cleaners some $16,000,000. And even the best rayon must be washed and ironed differently from silks if it is not to be injured. 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...
...editors. "For the last several years we have been treated to the spectacle of the domestic refiners masquerading as farmers and trying to hitchhike on the farm relief wagon, although all refiners of sugar are solely middlemen who have no more to do with production than laundrymen have to do with cotton planting,'' cried Chocolateer Staples. "For the domestic refiners to dramatize themselves as doughty defenders of the American sugar bowl is child's play. Mr. Babst, head of the largest American refinery concern, complains about a loophole in the tariff. It is also a loophole through...