Word: shops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their 300 waitresses more money, cover them up. "Those girls wear shorts or grass skirts, rain or shine." said the union's Jack Parm-ley. "Why, their clothing is next to noth-ing." He set a time limit, said he might then call a strike for a clothed shop...
...Briggs local's smart little Vice President Emil Mazey popped out a demand for the same sort of union shop guarantee which John Lewis won for his coal miners last month...
...Stavisky scandal flared into bloody riots. Serge Alexandre Stavisky, a Russian Jew who emigrated as a boy to France, had long been mixed up with shady financial deals. In 1932 he had gained control of the semi-official pawnshop ("Credit Municipal") of Bayonne. By arranging to have the shop's jewels overvalued, by getting a letter of endorsement from the Minister of Labor, by persuading even the Mayor and Deputy of Bayonne to "cooperate," Stavisky was able to sell quantities of Credit Municipal bonds many times greater than the assets of his pawnshop. Furthermore, he sold them mostly...
Business began to pick up. Canadian Colonial set up its own shop, hired its own pilots. This spring Trans-Canada Airlines went into operation between Montreal and Vancouver, and Janas found himself operating the eastern U. S. link of an overnight run from Manhattan to British Columbia. Meanwhile, a modest advertising appropriation began to get Canadian Colonial its share of traffic between Manhattan and Montreal...
...above lyrics from the newly-released Billie Holiday (Commodore Music Shop) of "Strang Fruit" are part of one of the most amazing mood records ever cut. Miss Holiday's singing, done in a bitterly poignant manner, makes even sharper the commentary on American democracy that this song conveys. Why does a colored band get one third as much money as a while band of equal ability. Why does a man have to go to the Supreme Court to he allowed to pay for his training as a lawyer? Why do political partics allow vestiges of Jim Crowism to hang...