Word: shirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 and sponging pants. In Pennsylvania last May Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor, took...
President Roosevelt shaved and put on a clean white shirt (but no tie) to receive his other Gloucester callers-Col. Edward Mandell House, who summers nearby, and Director of the Budget Douglas to talk about pension cuts. Then the Amberjack II put-putted through the Annisquam Canal to miss rough water off Cape Ann and sailed on to Little Harbor, N. H. for the night. There next morning 15-month-old Granddaughter Sara Delano Roosevelt spent a few minutes in the President's arm, expressed delight with the Amberjack II's glittering brass work...
Twenty-four pounds lighter but scot free, Charles Edwin Mitchell took his wife off to the plutocratic quietude of Southampton, L. I. last week. Gone were the baggy grey suit, the patched shirt, the stained fedora which he wore through the six weeks of his Manhattan tax evasion trial, the last 25 hours of which the jury had spent locked in deliberation. "Sunshine Charlie" was now dressed to the nines in well-pressed, well-cut haberdashery and on his greying head rested a finely-woven Panama that swayed to the least puff of breeze. He "had nothing to say about...
...movement of Fascism. Enormously ambitious, popping with energy, he made such a good job of clubbing the opposition that he was put in charge of II Duce's own territory. When the Quadrumvirate marched on Rome, one of those quadrumvirs was 26-year-old Italo Balbo, his black shirt sporting the insignia of a lieutenant-general of Fascist militia...
...instead, were discredited by the Court. The alleged misbehavior of Mrs. Jelke and one Robert White of Manhattan were dismissed as being no more than "indiscreet." But the Court did find that Mrs. Jelke had been cruel to her husband when she cursed him, bit his ear, tore his shirt; that Jelke had been cruel to her when he blackened her eye, abused her in the presence of others. Said the Judge: ". . . For her it was a marriage of convenience and an opportunity to indulge in luxury. . . . The wife liked excitement, social affairs and a good time, and no blame...