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...League of Women Shoppers was born last June when a few ladies left a tea at the home of Mrs. Arthur Garfield Hays to call on Nathan Ohrbach, who runs a big bargain dress store on Manhattan's Union Square. Merchant Ohrbach had had a strike on his hands for months. To their great surprise the ladies left his office with the realization that they had suddenly settled the Ohrbach strike. Mrs. Hays was promptly chosen as first president of the League of Women Shoppers. Among early members were Writers Genevieve Taggard and Josephine Herbst. The organization developed...