Word: stores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Carolina no one can vote in general elections without a poll tax receipt, but any white man can enter a primary by putting his name down in a book (often kept in a grocery store). This year some 20,000 Negroes were allowed to put their names down, a piece of official colorblindness far more advantageous to New Dealer Johnston than to unreconstructed "Cotton Ed" Smith...
...when the "hot" car rolled across San Francisco's labor scene, it also aroused other employers. The Retailers' Council, which had been negotiating a new contract with A. F. of L.'s Retail Department Store Employes Union to cover 35 stores, flatly balked at the union's three big demands: 35-hour week, store-wide (instead of departmental) seniority for promotions, closed shop. The union withdrew the first demand altogether, said it would compromise on a preferential shop. The Council stood firm and out marched 5,000 (out of 8,000) store employes, mostly girls...
...stores stayed open. To show that Labor can learn new tricks as quickly as Capital, the clerks warned pickets not to use even linguistic violence (words like "scab" or "fink") in attempting to keep non-strikers and customers out of the stores. Before leading department stores-the Emporium, the City of Paris, the White House-pickets sang Solidarity and It's Not Cricket to Picket (from the hit labor revue Pins & Needles). Pickets played mannequin in new fashions, glistening coiffures. J. C. Penney Co. supplied its pickets with comfortable, low-heeled shoes. But by week...
...Lucky Star (Twentieth Century-Fox) provides happy, healthy Sonja Henie, whose previous cinema roles have differed only in the hairline shadings of her skating routines, with a new medium of self-expression: clothes. Functioning as an employe of a Manhattan department store, she is sent to Plymouth University on a semiprofessional basis as a mannequin to promote the sales of winter sportswear. This device supplies most of the story motivation in My Lucky Star, since the Henie wardrobe arouses the jealousy of her less fortunate classmates. It also permits Miss Henie to model a collection of cold-weather creations which...
...near the peak set at the end of 1936 but the turnover (ratio of checks drawn to deposits) was at low ebb, 11% under the norm for 1935~37. Power output rose to a new 1938 high, General Motors recalled 24,000 men to its Flint plants, and department-store sales all over the nation were off only 3% from the same week a year ago as compared to 14% fortnight ago. Summarizing such statistics in his weekly press conference, Secretary of Commerce Roper, more sanguine than most industrialists, concluded that they marked a steady continuance of the "processes...