Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost every woman I know wears a shoe size between six and eight. I could name 20 personable young women, average height and slender, whose feet couldn't be fitted in less than a six and a half. Even a 5-ft., 90-pounder wears size five...
...years past Federal courts granted injunctions against miners' unions under the interstate commerce clause because the coal they mined went into interstate commerce. Now the shoe is on the other foot. When the Government tries to protect the wages of miners, the Court rules they are engaged in purely local business...
...father painted houses until Depression put the family on relief. Joe began to associate with one Harry Mathes, manager of a St. Louis shoe store who liked to paint pictures in his back room. In 1930 Joe got married and later won a 100 prize in the Artists' Guild show in St. Louis...
...Shoe Fruit. Conspicuous among tycoons for his liberal and generous labor policy is George F. Johnson of Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes), who lately declared, "Any man who dies rich dies disgraced." (TIME, Jan. 7). By means of a liberal bonus, Shoeman Johnson shared profits with his 19,000 employes long before NRA came along. Many an envious competitor predicted that the good feeling between Endicott Johnson and its employes would end when President Johnson opposed the 30-hr. week. Last year after May Day, while Communists were parading dourly elsewhere, Mr. Johnson's workers cheered ecstatically at a gradually...
...cheer the writer (possibly subsidized) who disparages Woodrow Wilson, Walter Hines Page, Lord Bryce etc. etc. and who applauds the notorious People's Council, the Pacifist resolutions of 1917, Gum Shoe Bill Stone and all that ilk? This, your favorite writer for the week, also takes a sweep at Teddy Roosevelt, whom he calls treasonable! . . . Let all the patriots of any decade be dressed as punks and fools, let Judas Iscariot himself be painted with a halo. Let up be down and down up, and you have a Millis book and five columns...