Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Help Wanted. On his way to the convention, A. B. A. President Robert Vedder Fleming of Washington's Riggs Bank had stopped off in Spokane, Wash, long enough to get himself named "Chief Black Hawk" by the Flathead Indians. This warlike title he bore gracefully. Mr. Fleming, amiable and solid as he is jolly, reminded the bankers that during the year Congress and the Administration had given A. B. A. "courteous and attentive consideration." Banks had been excluded from the provisions of the law taxing undistributed earnings. "Splendid cooperation" had been received from the Government in a survey aimed...
Facilities in the non-residents' social center should be the same as last year. Provided are "a lunch room capable of seating over 100 students at a time and a large common room furnished as a lounge for recreation and study in addition to locker and wash rooms...
...refuse to be a sacrificial goat for, of all people, the Class of 1911 to pile on their own abysmal mediocrities. I am not now, and never have been a member of that dismal class. Thank God, I am 1910, and I suggest that if 1911 wants to wash its own very dirty linen in public, it at least abstain from splashing its cleaner neighbors...
...explained last week, "business didn't seem to be coming in. My drivers were beginning to complain that customers told them I shouldn't have fought this case. People were listening to stories in the newspapers against me. My customers wouldn't give my drivers their wash. Then the Laundry Workers International Union tried to demonstrate in front of my plant and I got the police to chase them away. But they went to the next corner and made speeches knocking me every night...
Townsend men held up their light wash pants with wide suspenders, wore no coats over their rumpled shirts; the women wore plain print dresses, outmoded hats, sensible shoes. At week's end Cleveland merchants complained that they had bought record quantities of picture postcards, almost nothing else. But there were nearly 5,000 delegates-more than the Republican and Democratic convention delegates combined-and as many more visitors. If they were genuinely representative, they meant that there were millions of oldsters like them throughout the land, each with a vote, each with 10? per month for Townsend Club dues...