Word: shirtwaisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swiss chemist, Frederick Norbert Wagner contracted travelers' itch "while my shirtwaist and trousers were still one piece." At 17 he shipped to the U. S. After clerking for a shipping line, he landed a job in Cook's London office. The World War found him skittering about as a British Intelligencer, an experience which brought him many a fruitful contact ("I know all the little back doors...
Chairman and guiding spirit of the Guild is diminutive, elegant Dress Manufacturer Maurice Rentner. Mr. Rentner writes most of the descriptive copy for his own little fashion magazine, Quality Street. Born in Poland, he started his career in the Manhattan dress market as an errand boy carrying thread to shirtwaist makers. He now owns a manufacturing firm with six factories, makes dresses retailing from $55 up. Mr. Rentner says the court fight now threatening his Guild is at bottom an effort by retailers to escape the Guild's stabilizing policies on discounts and returns, that the question of style...
...comedy. Screenwriters Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich have gone further, using the sound frame of O'Neill's drama as the basis for a period pastiche. It is all there, for people who can think back 30 years: the band concert on the common; the tandem bicycles, shirtwaist watches, lemonade and porch swings; the crested brewery horses, prancing to the political club picnic on the Fourth of July; the bombardment of firecrackers which on that date turned the streets of every U. S. city into miniature battlefields. But even those who do not know what a Stanley Steamer...
...first to take a code. At Lincolnton, N. C. mill hours were upped from 40 to 50 per week, minimum wages also upped from $12 to $16. At Greenville, S. C. the Piedmont Shirt Co. cut wages 25%, upped hours from 36 to 40 hours. At Atlanta 20 piecework shirtwaist makers struck when wages were cut from $1.80 to $1.50 a dozen, hours upped from 35 to 37½ At Manchester, Conn. 1,200 silk workers threatened to strike against a 5% to 20% wage cut imposed by Ward Cheney, great NRAdvocate, head of Cheney Bros. He backed down...
...Neither knows Mrs. Benedict. Professor Morgan, 50, is a short, trim woman with slightly grey bobbed hair, blue eyes. Since 1906 she has taught zoology at Mount Holyoke (except for two years at Cornell), has headed her department since 1916. During school hours she habitually wears a tailored skirt, shirtwaist, tie, white "physician's" coat. She moves briskly about her laboratories, lectures her classes in clear, crisp tones. Her recent writings for learned publications have dealt with the winter habits and yearly food consumption of adult spotted newts. But her favorite preoccupation has been and, says she, will always...