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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union demanded that proprietors of drive-in, curb-service restaurants pay their 300 waitresses more money, cover them up. "Those girls wear shorts or grass skirts, rain or shine." said the union's Jack Parm-ley. "Why, their clothing is next to noth-ing." He set a time limit, said he might then call a strike for a clothed shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Next to Nothing | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Friday, June 19 will be like any other day in Cambridge, but not so in Ak-Bulak, Siberia, for to this little hamlet, 200 miles noth of the Caspian sea, scientific expeditions will come from all over the world to observe an eclipse of the sun. Harvard and M.I.T. are combining to send a joint expedition under the direction of Donald H. Menzel, associate professor of Astronomy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D.H. MENZEL WILL LEAD BULAK ECLIPSE TRIP | 3/14/1936 | See Source »

Five days before the opening of the National Academy of Design's noth annual exhibition President Jonas Lie gave an elaborately rehearsed interview over a coast-to-coast network, in which he announced the winners of the $4,400 worth of assorted prizes that the N. A. has assembled through the years. Nobody could see the pictures last week, but from the names and reputations of the winners all the U. S. art world knew that the long-awaited rejuvenation of the National Academy was under way. Except for elderly, conservative Frederick Judd Waugh of Provincetown, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Radio Plugs | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...Manhattan last week Subway Motorman Fred Floodgate had shut off his power and was coasting his northbound express into the West noth Street station when he caught a blurred glimpse of a slim, blonde woman poised on the edge of the platform. The next instant there was a downward flutter of a black-and-tan dress. Motorman Floodgate's hand stiffened on the emergency brake control. Clamped wheels shrieked. The train slid 50 ft. before stopping. Ten minutes later police gathered from the tracks the bloody remains of Elsie Green, 38. Her purse on the platform contained 55¢. A clerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Destitution | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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