Word: sweatshops
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...Reichenbach is particularly proud of having raised, on a wager, a certain Nina Barbour from sweatshop to stage within ten days. He engaged two actresses (whose publicity he handled) to halt their car, as if with motor trouble, before a dingy building on the Bowery. As pre-arranged, a sweet voice sounded from a window, singing "On the Banks of the Wabash". Also as pre-arranged, the two actresses stepped from their car, stared up at the window, and, before the crowd thus attracted, entered the building and brought Nina Barbour out to notoriety and motored her away...
...true that the functions of their office exact neither physical nor mental effort from these gentlemen. Sweatshop workers, boilermakers, bookkeepers, often look upon them with envy. Guards have it easy. All they gotta do is just stand, and once in a while tell some loonhead where...
Said the Acting Dean of a great cathedral: "War cannot go until the sweatshop goes. War cannot go until the opium dens and bucketshops go; war cannot go until the fevered cruelty of much business competition goes . . . until churches learn to tolerate each other without jealous rivalry. . . . The seed of war lies in the soil of the soul...
...Story. Meyer Hirsch tells the story of his life. First and foremost he was a Jew. Later he was a professional Jew-the Jew in politics. On a keen December evening "in ramshackle New York during the sprawling awkward age of its growth," Meyer, only child of sweatshop workers, grandson of a horse thief, returns from cheder (Hebrew school) to the "two little dark rooms in a rear house, kerosene lamps, water from the yard pump, toilet in back yard . . not even enough crockery or eating things," occupied by his parents and maternal uncle, Philip Gold. Nine years...
Married. William H. Vanderbilt, a son of the late Alfred G. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Paul Fitz Simons, to Miss Emily O'Neill Davies, in Grace Church, Manhattan. After the ceremony several shop girls and sweatshop workers crowded past the police guard, entered the church, took as souvenirs some of the pale pink chrysanthemums tied in clusters to the pew ends...