Word: pressers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willie Lurye was a mild-looking, curly-haired little fellow who would give a man the shirt off his back, people said. Like his Papa, who had been a cigar maker in Sam Gompers' union, he was hot for unions. Willie was a dress presser in the biggest in New York, the International Ladies' Garment Workers (405,000 members). With a wife and four kids to look after, Willie gave up a $180-a-week pressing job last fall to work for $80 as a special organizer: there were still some non-union no-good-nicks...
Cabbage, Dr. Cheney found, contained a lot of vitamin U, and seemed to keep guinea pigs from getting ulcers. In California Medicine, he reported results of a five-month test on 13 patients. He gave them a quart of cabbage juice a day, squeezed out by a juice presser from fresh raw cabbage. They also got a fairly normal diet. They were given no regular doses of alkalis, and were allowed to smoke all they wanted. All their food was cooked; vitamin U is destroyed by cooking, and Cheney wanted his patients to get it only in the carefully measured...
Local entrepreneur, sportsman, and presser of men's pants, Benjamin Jacobson, was definitely nor the least interested spectator at the opening session of Dick Harlow's course in character building. Benny, resplendant in blue blazer, gilt buttons, and gray fiannels, felt that "with a few breaks and a bottle of Energine we ought to keep a clean slate...
...daughter as a Methodist. Mohamed II was horrified, claimed that some 200,000,000 Moslems would be, too. "The Princess," he declared, "belongs to all Islam." His wife's attorneys thought otherwise. Had he not dreamed up his claim to the Turkish throne while working as a pants presser in London? Cried the Emir: "It's a lie!" Was he really a subject of Turkey? Certainly not. "Turkey is a subject...
...York Bar Bell Co., which still turns out an average of 10,000 bar bells a year, despite restrictive priorities. For past, present and future champions its three foundries provide jobs which do not affect their amateur standing. Clean-jerker Ter-lazzo, for example, is office secretary, Presser Terpak is general manager, and Snatcher Ishikawa earns brawn with his bread by lifting boxes in the shipping department. "Mr. America" is a machinist...