Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City. In protest against "sweat shops" and outside non-union contract work, 25,000 women's garment makers quit work, picketed peacefully. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt called both sides to Albany for personal conferences...
...their spines); to two sisters, Natividad and Victorino Malos. Marriage licenses were issued to them by the Philippine Department of Justice, which overruled a license bureau clerk who felt that the twins, whom he regarded as one individual with a dual personality, would commit bigamy by marrying two women...
Interesting statistics on the overclothing of men were produced last week by Dr. Eugene L. Fisk of the Life Extension Institute in Manhattan. In the interests of science Dr. Fisk removed all the clothing from a dozen men and women, carefully weighed the respective garments, found that the average woman wore 2½ Ib. of clothing, the average man 8½. Itemizing the costume of a young woman and a man, apparently conservative, picked at random, he discovered...
...Walter Lamkin's term as president of the N. E. A. expired. Elected to succeed him was Miss E. Ruth Pyrtle of Lincoln, Neb., who sailed immediately following the conference to attend conventions of the World's Federation of Education Associations and the American Association of University Women in Switzerland...
...first all-U. S. women's finals in the history of Wimbledon but by no means the first all-French men's finals...