Word: corset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When in Long Island, Judd Gray, corset salesman, murdered Albert E. Snyder, 45, husband of Ruth Brown Snyder, 32, the Manhattan dailies were shocked beyond the drunkenest tabloid editor's most gaudy dream (TIME, April 4, 1927). The Manhattan public was somehow puzzled. How came a curly-haired, weak-mouthed little vendor of female garments, in the vegetable suburbs of a great city, to such a pitch of excitement that he could smash a man's skull with a sash-weight? The tabloids, who followed Judd Gray and Ruth Snyder until (and after) the current shot through them...
Practically all industries have some trade association. Famed are such potent and august bodies as the Copper Institute, the American Iron & Steel Institute, the Institute of American Meat Packers. Less famed are the Better Bedding Alliance of America, the Corset & Brassiere Association of America, the Hickory Handle Association. The aim of each is to promote the interests of its members: soapmen know that the Cleanliness Institute is a booster for more washing. But sometimes .this mutual help goes further than advertising. And for this reason last week many an institute fearfully watched the affairs of the Asphalt Shingle & Roofing Institute...
...Chicago Safety Council, shouted: "We will send Capone to the chair if it is possible to do so!* Capone has become almost a mythical being, but he isn't a myth-he's a reptile. He deserves to die. He has no right to live." Gathering of corset-makers that night hailed Judge Lyle as "our next mayor." New Move. Four agencies were at work in the nation's two largest cities last week to abate the pestilence of gangdom. In Manhattan the police department announced it would weed out criminal aliens from the daily lineup, turn...
...Woolston, England, lightning entered a metal support in Emily Sophie Sudlow's corset, killed...
Died. William Allen Marble, 81, oldtime corset man, president of Manhattan's famed Roth & Goldschmidt Corset Co., onetime director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, twotime (1910, 1911) president-general of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; suddenly, at Mount Pocono...