Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meetings were moved from the A. F. of L.'s offices to an air-cooled banquet hall of the Hotel Hamilton across the street from C. I. O. headquarters. Industrial Unionist Lewis could, by looking out his office window, see the back of Craft Unionist Green sitting in shirt sleeves at the conference table...
Richard Ellsworth Savage, first introduced in 1919 as a young Harvard poet turned opportunist among the glittering opportunities of the Peace Conference, is shown in The Big Money as a prematurely tired junior executive who works hard at being yes-man to J. Ward Moorehouse, the great stuffed shirt of the public relations world. When J. Ward finally falters, Dick Savage is right there to take over...
...Canton jails by General Yu were quantities of the "Blue Shirt" strong-arm men who it is Nanking etiquette to say are not the Generalissimo's spies, agents provocateurs and throat-slitters...
Preacher. Up to the microphones broad-shouldered, coatless, clutching a Bible in his left hand, stepped the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, claimant to the leadership of 6,000,000 Share-Our-Wealthers left him by the late Huey Long. Sweat streamed off his broad face, plastered his shirt against his barrel chest as he swung into his harangue. No mild economic creed was his but a rousing call to arms. Too long, he shouted, had the plain people of the U. S. let Wall Street and Tammany rule them...
...shocking pause as before 10,000 people Father Coughlin literally unfrocked himself. Stepping back from the microphones, he peeled off his black coat, ripped off his Roman collar, plucked out the collar button fastening his neckband. Back to the rostrum, a chunky man in dark pants and open shirt, he leaped to roar: "As far as the National Union is concerned, no candidate which is endorsed for Congress can campaign, go electioneering for, or support the great betrayer and liar, Franklin D. Roosevelt...