Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost as busy settling strikes and getting union men back to work as it was in creating new jobs for the unemployed. The coal strike hinged directly on the coal code which required the President's direct intervention (see p. 11). In the East 50,000 silk workers went on strike in protest against lumping their trade with cotton and rayon for code purposes...
...plastics. It resists water, decay and flames, has advantages as an adhesive, in sizing paper and textiles, and in finishing leather. Chemist Morris Omansky, Boston consultant, reports zein useful as a reinforcing compound for rubber manufacture, arid Dr. Barnard thinks the protein substance might be turned into artificial silk...
Only his silk-vested and sombreroed courtiers realized how sick a man was King Feisal of Irak last month when, after his soldiers and some fierce border Kurds had massacred 600 Assyrians, he awaited, "in spite of my broken health," the arrival of a British investigator (TIME, Aug. 28). His impatience to leave for a "vacation" in Switzerland sounded, especially in view of his holiday in England only a few weeks prior, like an effort to gloss over the massacre. Last week came proof it was no such thing. The Assyrian trouble was quieted, but not a disturbance in lean...
...elderly apple vendor named Mrs. Nellie McCarthy to have her hair marcelled, lunch at the Waldorf-Astoria in a silk dress. To exploit Bureau of Missing Persons, First National promised, in advertisements, to pay $10,000 to Manhattan's missing Judge Joseph F. Crater in case he asked for it in person at the box office. Detectives from the Manhattan Police Department's Bureau of Missing Persons-whose Captain John H. Ayers wrote Missing Men on which the picture is based-were on hand to identify Judge Crater. He failed to appear. Unlike Captain Ayers' book...
...robed nuns swished through the hospital corridors, attending to the needs of judges, advocates and witnesses. Across the hall nuns vowed to secrecy bent over desks, laboriously making four copies in longhand of all testimony, to be sent to Rome. Every day Monsignor Cioppa distributed hard candies in little silk bags stitched by the nuns, explaining that this was an old Italian custom signifying Joy and Peace. Two miracles are necessary for beatification. In Chicago last week appeared Sister Delfina Grazioli of Seattle who says she had four major operations before December 1925. Given the deathbed rite of Extreme Unction...