Word: silk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tennessee. Last October Herbert Hoover went to Elizabethton to make a campaign speech. Proudly its citizens led him through the shiny new mills of the Bemberg and Glanztoff artificial silk companies. He was presented with a sample suit of underwear. Shrewd Germans had invested $10,000,000 in these mills to escape the U. S. tariff. But Germans are hard taskmasters. Mill operatives worked 56 hours per week; their pay envelopes held from $8.90 to $14; overtime brought no extra money. Spurred on by the American Federation of Labor, the Elizabethton workers struck last month. The strike was settled, with...
Ignoring the advice of physicians and the pleading of friends, Mr. Herrick at the funeral of Marshal Ferdinand Foch (TIME, April 1) had taken off his silk hat, tramped more than two miles in the rain, caught a cold which broke down his long precarious health and killed him within five days...
...matter what their turn of mind, all Cheneys saw a Cheney-built schoolhouse and a Cheney-built library. They saw a large wooded park, around which were dotted nine large Cheney residences and a half dozen smaller Cheney houses. They saw a large expanse of Cheney-owned silk mills and warehouses. They saw block on block of Cheney-built employes' houses. But they saw no Cheney-built churches, for the Cheneys, though exceedingly moral, are no pillars of the church...
Skates, and skewers and beaded silk...
...into many a microphone that if returned to the Prime Ministry, which he held in 1924, he will nationalize coal and related industries, and operate them to provide work at a living wage for the jobless. Meanwhile jaunty David Lloyd George, the Welsh Wizard of Liberalism, waves his empty silk hat and promises (TIME, March 25) to conjure out of it enough borrowed money to keep all the unemployed busy on road building and public works for five years. The steady-going fellow with the umbrella is Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, imperturbable leader of the Conservatives. He has spent...