Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flexing not by fixing prices. S. Clay Williams is accordingly no price- fixer. Recently NRA surveyed 23 industries and came to the conclusion that those which had maintained their prices had bad employment records compared to those which had flexed prices. As a price-flexer Mr. Williams favors uniform minimum wages as tending to stabilize costs, hence competition...
Word was promptly forthcoming that a commission to design a new and less spectacular uniform had been sent to Earl Carroll, at present producing a show in a Miami Beach nightclub. Last month when the Hauptmann trial commenced in Flemington, it was stated that the gaudy sky blue and yellow uniforms of the New Jersey State troopers, now familiar to all the U. S., had been designed by Producer Carroll six years ago. Reprinted many times, the statement was never challenged until last week when the constabulary, perhaps embarrassed by being so closely connected with a gentleman once jailed...
...general, uniform designers are almost as anonymous a lot as postage stamp engravers. Most famed uniforms are a gradual outgrowth of ancient traditions. Thus the sailors of Britain still wear round their necks a black silk scarf, in perpetual mourning for Admiral Lord Nelson. A few famed uniform designers are known. Michelangelo designed the uniform of the Swiss papal guard exactly as it is still worn. The Potsdam Grenadier Guards' uniform was designed by Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Cadet James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon...
...last minute last week, however, Atlantic City's Mayor Bacharach blasted the rumor that he had commissioned Earl Carroll to uniform his police...
...Atlantic City policemen," came his latest ukase, "are not putting on a burlesque show. The designing will be done by conventional uniform tailors and not by theatrical producers, Paris designers, or bathtub decorators...