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Further the black cotton stockings may also be discarded in favor of lighter shades such as gun-metal and the like. However the belief of one House waitress that she might be required to wear a white uniform for the evening meal, was groundless, according to the Manager's office, for no such drastic change is contemplated. The reason for the abandonment of the head bands is simply to save an additional laundry item for the employees, according to Westcott...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Waitresses No Longer To Wear Their Head Bands | 10/28/1937 | See Source »

...Raceland, in Louisiana's trench speaking Acadian community, Freddie John's fiancée, Waitress Louise St. Germaine of Napoleonville was heartbroken. His father showed the boy's last letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...very serious about this arbitrary little restriction and no one will go hungry as a result, but it tries a man's patience, and ruffles his equanimity. Mr. Hieman has denied any connection with the new fruit embargo, so the only conclusion that can be drawn is that some waitress or waitresses decided that she would take the matter into her own hands. But now that all fruit served must be cut and eaten on the premises, the waitresses have the added responsibility of seeing that no one slyly puts a grapefruit or two into his pocket, and then dashes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORBIDDEN FRUIT | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

...until, with three weeks rent due at her boardinghouse, she gets a job as waitress at a party given by Producer Oliver Niles (Adolphe Menjou), does Esther encounter her hero in the flesh. By this time, like the rest of Hollywood, she is aware that Norman Maine (Fredric March) is an habitual drunkard whose dipsomaniac pranks are an intolerable nuisance or an aspect of his charm, depending on the point of view. To Esther, whom Maine accosts in the kitchen, escorts home and brings to the studio for a screen test, they are presumably the latter. To Niles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 3, 1937 | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...TIME, April 6), the City of Washington's similar law was, after 14 years in limbo, restored to the statute books. If Congress wished to revise the Act, it was time to take action before the District of Columbia Commissioners appointed a Minimum Wage Board. Promptly Ruth Carnett, waitress, claiming she has been paid $10.40 a week instead of $16.50 as required by law sued her employer for the difference since the date of her employment, Jan. 13, 1936. ¶ To questioners at press conference the President reiterated that he knew nothing about plans to cut the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Cloud | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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