Word: parrishes
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...Elsie Parrish. Off & on from 1933 to 1935, the Cascadian Hotel of Wenatchee, Wash, employed Mrs. Elsie Parrish as chambermaid for $12 a week. Under Washington's Minimum Wage Law for women she should have got $14.50 for her 48-hour week. She demanded what the law said was coming to her. The hotel offered $17 in settlement. Elsie Parrish spurned it. She sued...
...benefit of Constitutional doubt, the Court voted 5-3 against it. In 1925 a minimum wage law of Arizona, in 1927 a similar law of Arkansas, last year a similar law of New York-all were invalidated on the District of Columbia precedent. What chance did Elsie Parrish have? Washington's Minimum Wage Law had been regarded for years as a dead letter...
...join the Chicago Tribune as No. 2 cartoonist. First draughtsman of the Tribune then as now was John Tinney McCutcheon. Fortnight ago the Tribune again raided the Tennessean for an artist. It was announced that to the Chicago paper on Aug. 1 would go 30-year-old Joseph Parrish, whose work Cartoonist Orr and Tribune Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick had been quietly admiring. Packing up in Nashville, Democratic Cartoonist Joe Parrish drawled: "Now I reckon I'll have to learn how to draw Republican elephants...
...campaign coming to a boil, Publisher McCormick is prepared to use all his journalistic resources to try to defeat Franklin D. Roosevelt. Therefore, Tribune readers last week confidently expected to see on Page 1 more & more of able Cartoonist Orr's aggressive New Deal attacks, while Cartoonist Joe Parrish backs him up by interpreting McCormick ideas on the editorial page...
...elaborately worked sketch for the last was in the Parrish show last week. All the other pictures were new but painted in the old manner: pink rocks in a blue mist, spinach-green trees in a theatrical amber light, all ticked out in the most minute detail. True to his promise five years ago to paint no more nude girls on rocks, there are no figure studies in the present exhibition...