Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wanted. Last week, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announced a prize of $1,000 for the inventor of a durable, comfortable, dependable, non-slipping winter and wet-weather shoe for horses. The Society had examined, discarded 600 models...
...employed" is a woman-that is to say, there are more than eight million women workers in this country. At the meeting were women teachers, lawyers, salesclerks, office workers, factory workers., Government employes, representatives of the American Federation of Labor, of the International Typographical Union, of the Boot and Shoe Worker's Union, of the United Garment Workers, of the United Textile Workers, of the Women's Trade Union League...
Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe...
Died. John M. Coward, 55, at Glen Ridge, N. Y. He was owner of the famed Coward shoe factories and retail stores, financier, son of the late James S. Coward, by whom the business was founded...
Labor. Secretary James J. Davis condemned the overdevelopment in many industries, which results in their being shut down much of the time. He declared that 14.5% of the shoe factories, employing 60.4% of the labor in that trade, could if they worked 300 days a year produce 95% of the shoes needed in this country. He showed similar conditions in flour milling and bituminous coal mining, and declared that some legislative remedy should be found without creating monopolies. He recommended that measures be taken for the enrollment of all resident aliens as a means of check-up on those...