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...labor prohibition was packed with moral dynamite which might yet blow the anachronistic practice out of all industry. Next to cotton mills, clothing factories suck in more girls and boys than any other U. S. industry. Most of them are dark. fetid "sweatshops" where youngsters trim and stitch and sew on buttons at starvation wages. But because so much of this cheap dress & shirt work is done in tenement homes, no reliable figures are available of children employed or wages paid. In a Brooklyn factory lately investigators found 5-year-old girls making 6f an hour ($2.78 per week) threading...
...Employers' Casualty Co. Her father. Ole Didrikson, is Scandinavian, a onetime sailor. Beyond a tendency to use explicit language and to despise small girls who play with dolls, Wonder Girl Didrikson's demeanor during intervals between her physical exertions is not unfeminine. She likes to cook, dance, sew. Last year she constructed for herself a box-plaited dress. It won first prize at the Texas State Fair...
...height, was graduated from the University of Chicago's law school, practiced in Chicago in 1921 after serving as a clerk in the Kansas House. Now she has a thriving law office at Hays, where her father, local Democratic boss, has an automobile agency. She likes to golf, violin, sew...
Chicago, Illinois, September 29--On my way to Cambridge but the chance to see another of my favorite World Series exhibitions held me up here in Gangtown stop Odds here on Cubs to win tomorrow's game but I forecast that Allen's curves will sew knots around Chicago batsmen to tune of 6 to 4 stop Noise here so great that I cannot concentrate properly but predict Crimson will down Bisons 39-0 stop Send $50 sooner quicker...
...Harvard malletmen proceeded to sew up their lead in the fourth chukker, when Captain F. S. Nicholas '33, the stellar Harvard shot, sent three steaming aerial shots between the posts. Another tally by Luton gave the Crimson polo team a seven point advantage over the opposition. Two scores by Captain F. D. Sharp, the Harvard coach, playing at back for Westwood, stimulated the University riders to a concerted rush in the next period. HARVARD WESTWOOD Luton, No. 1. No. 1, Newbegin Nicholas, No. 2. No. 2, Blandon Cooke, back back, Sharp...