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Most of the clothes Annie gave to a friend in distress. A fur scarf she traded for whiskey. In six months, turning 71, she gave up her apple stand. In eight more she was dead...
General Johnson's ubiquitous assistant, Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson, had been in Manhattan last week stitching an NRA label on an $800 blue fox scarf to signalize the codification of the fur industry when the story broke that her brother-in-law had a $6,800 NRA job in Washington. Brother-in-law's name was John Wilshear. He had been treasurer of a Brooklyn shoe company. When it shut down several months ago he went to Washington and into "training to take charge of the leather section of NRA." Rent with internal politics, NRA headquarters began to buzz with...
...clock, opens and answers every letter herself, signs every check. She can design gowns with pencil and shears but more often puts them together in her head while driving in a motorcar. At her opening last week, clad in a last season's black crepe dress, she tied each scarf and fastened each belt on the mannequins before they left the cabine. Then she hastily escaped to her studio...
...minutes later there were 144 signatures. Representative Isabella Greenway of Arizona, wearing a garnet colored sports dress and a red scarf, wandered in and sat down. Immediately several Representatives went to her, proposed that she take the credit of being the 145th. She pounded a small determined fist on the arm of her chair, said, no, she would not do it for any amount of publicity. A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-lb. Congressman from Lewiston. Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that...
...appearing as the cultured fireman in the "Little Show." "But in the summer I'd rather be a policeman, because their uniforms are lighter. To tell the truth, I really don't care about the matter. Boston policemen?" Mr. O'Connell paused to adjust a bright red scarf around his neck. "Oh, they're swell...