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...alien squad members, policemen. State Department and Italian Embassy officials, and rushed cross town to the Ritz Tower Hotel, thus avoiding a noisy incident as the Rex warped into its regular pier. A thunderous loud speaker, operated by a microphone hidden in the pier's men's washroom suddenly boomed...
...months ago his Government abolished the droit de tablier ("right of the apron"), the fee that waiters and washroom attendants had to pay their employers for the privilege of working for tips...
...such shadowboxing as a Supreme Court decision and a Senate investigation. A young grocery clerk who testified that Ben Unthank had offered him $100 to "shoot up" a union organizer, returned to tell the Committee that a Harlan deputy and three other men had followed him to a Capitol washroom and pushed him around, that he had later been warned by telephone to get out of Washington or be "buried in Arlington." Hapless...
...hour setup, staged a noisy demonstration to protest against employers who refuse to grant shorter working hours during the impending tourist season. To appease them the French Government had already been obliged to abolish the Droit de Tab-lier ("Right of the Apron"), the "privilege" of waiters, hat-checkers, washroom attendants, doorkeepers to pay their employers for allowing them to work for tips. In some swank Paris cafés this has cost waiters as much as 100 francs ($4.43) a week. Bricklayers, plumbers, plasterers were keeping the Premier jittery by stringing out construction of buildings for the Paris Exposition...
...should like to see, a group of my paintings shown in your galleries." Director Alan D. Gruskin went to work, and last week opened the first one-man show of 32-year-old Artist Cadmus. Around the walls sailors tousled their trollops, perverts beckoned from a cafeteria washroom, sagbellied Babbitts diddled in Y.M.C.A. locker rooms, slatterns rioted on public beaches, for these are the principal aspects of U. S. life that attract Artist Cadmus attention, and he shrewdly draws and crudely colors them...