Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Philadelphians had poked under their proud noses the unwholesome fact that within 15 miles of City Hall was a suburban slum of almost medieval squalor. Its name was Sackville and it consisted of 60 rickety shacks squatting around a woolen mill. Sackville was settled 135 years ago and has stood still ever since. Its streets are unpaved. It has no running water, no sewers, no electricity. Almost every wage-earner among its 300 residents works in the mill. Last week the cry of "Anthrax!" prompted Rudolph H. Sack, owner of mill and town, to advise a general evacuation...
Married. Marion Hughes Whitehead, 22, divorced wife of Conkey Pate Whitehead, Atlanta bottling scion; and Andrew Granville Pierce III, 25, son of the one-time board chairman of American Woolen Co.; in Manhattan...
...last Ethics lecture of the year by Professor Rufus Matthew Jones, Haverford's most respected and oldest active teacher, 'Quaker theologian and member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. The costume custom was nearly abandoned when a student appeared on a Kiddie Kar in long woolen underwear as Lady Godiva. Among Haverford's younger teachers are Leslie Hotson who solved the mystery of Christopher Marlowe's death; Snake...
...fixing clause be approved. Onetime member of the War Industries Board and now president of Dun & Bradstreet, Mr. Whiteside is a pillar of the NRA and in line for head of one of the four permanent divisions. A sallow, bristle-haired credit man of 50, he handled the shipbuilding, woolen goods and underwear codes...
...grandchildren and friends, and a wife who still loved him. The Author is a writing example of what a woman can do in a man's world besides getting married. Born & brought up in Yorkshire's West Riding, in the midst of the woolen industry, she joined her passion for story-telling to a lively interest in her surroundings. "As a child I used often to go to my father's mill, lean over the edge of the boiler pit and watch the various processes of cloth manufacture. My father was a man very highly skilled...