Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty pretty girls paraded in Manhattan before a jury gathered to select New York's 15 most beautiful mannequins to model clothes at the World's Fair. When no decision was reached, someone suggested that the mannequins lift their skirts. Someone shouted, "Hike 'em up!" All the jurors tittered except Robert EcU mond ("Bobby") Jones, famed stage set designer. Said he sternly: "We came to look, not to leer...
...SEVEN FIRMS REPORT RISE IN PAY RATES. . . . Brokers Pay Bonus. . . . THOUSANDS GET PAY INCREASES OF 5 TO 20%. . . . Plants Recall Workers, Lift Wage Scales. . . . 20% INCREASE BY PEANUT CONCERN. . . . 9,000 In Textile Mills Advanced. . . .WAGE RISES CONTINUE OVER NATION...
...while a military court worked up evidence for the civil prosecution of those rural mobsters who, week before, had abducted and outraged Judge Charles Clark Bradley (TIME, May 8). Nearly 100 earth-stained farmers were held prisoner in a military stockade outside town. Governor Herring had just promised to lift martial law in Plymouth County when at Des Moines, 160 mi. away, fresh farm trouble sprouted to plague the good name of Iowa. Meeting in the cattle pavilion of the State Fair Grounds, the Farmers' Holiday Association, under rough-spoken Milo Reno, raucously voted another farm strike...
...tariff truce against more rate uppings. After that, attempts will be made to weed out such quota restrictions as Austria puts on tires and shoes, Belgium on sugar and silk knit goods, Germany on lard and butter. Last week France, sensing a turn in the tide, planned to lift quota restrictions on U. S. radios, asparagus, apples and pears-a move strongly backed by the French wine interests with eyes fixed on the U. S. market after Repeal of the 18th Amendment. The London Conference will not discuss specific rates but its prime purpose will be to stabilize tariffs...
John Doctor, a huffy person when told what to do or not do by anyone outside the medical profession, last week got Congress to lift practically all restrictions on whiskey prescriptions. It was a long struggle of attrition against the Prohibitionists. Dr. William Creighton Woodward, Washington lobbyist for the American Medical Association, eventually won for John Doctor, helped by John Doctor's telegrams, telephone calls and airmailed letters to Senators and Representatives...