Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homework. The idea behind prohibiting homework in formulating the embroidery code was to prevent manufacturers from sweating wretched women for such appalling wages as 5¢ an hour. Nevertheless, in Manhattan Mrs. Nenette Sabatini and Mrs. Rose Perricone had young children to support, so they applied to the State Industrial Commissioner for permits to work at home. They were denied, and the case came to court. Mrs. Sabatini said she made as much as $15 a week crocheting, Mrs. Perricone said she made $22. Domestic duties prevented them from working in a factory. The judge found that the code prohibition "appears...
Neville Chamberlain, buttoned into the gold-laced uniform of a privy councilor, rose up before a decoration-studded audience which knew that the pound had just performed a spectacular swoop on 'change and that the unrepentant Labor Party was about to try to put England into 100% Socialism. But, unlike any other of the world's chief Finance Ministers, Mr. Chamberlain had the facts of prosperity on his side. Said...
Chief rival to Elmira, N. Y. as a U. S. soaring centre is Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. There last week, in the course of a 10-day meet of the Soaring Society of America, two gliders flying in formation rose to 6,500 ft., broke the U. S. record of 6,233 ft. set last summer at Elmira by Richard Chichester du Pont (TIME, July 9). Pilots of the two gliders were President Warren Edwin Eaton of the Soaring Society and Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite. World's altitude record for motorless planes is held by Austria...
Other novelties on the season's schedule: 1) this week's game, the first in 29 years between Yale and Columbia. Rose Bowl Champions, instead of the "setup" with which the Yale season normally starts; 2) an Eastern Big Four, composed of Princeton, Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth; 3) ten teams in the Pacific Coast Conference which will travel a total of 71,000 miles during the season...
...Reid and her friends feel that the world is moving forward. The list of lose who hold top-notch positions makes an impressive roster: Josephine Roche, who owns and runs her late father's Rocky mountain Fuel Co. (TIME, Sept. 7, 1931; Sept. 24); Mary Elizabeth Dillon, who rose from office-girl to president of the 12,000,000 Brooklyn Borough Gas Co.; Eleanor Medill Patterson, fiery editor of Hearst's Washington Herald; May Greer, cashier of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., reputedly highest salaried woman in the U. S.; Minnie Williams Miller, owner and operator of Thousand Springs...