Word: shirtman
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...shirt industry is showing signs of wear around the edges, now that the wartime shortage is over, and Shirtman Phillips could not have picked a better time for something new. He is an old hand at new selling tricks. A grandson of Founder Moses Phillips, he stepped into Phillips-Jones's presidency in 1939 at a time when the company had just turned in a loss of $937,186. Its stock, which had once sold at 98¼, had sunk to 2¾. At 36, Phillips knew plenty about the shirt business; for 15 years he had clerked...
...upon a time William Dudley Pelley was a newspaper man in Vermont. Later he was a spiritualist. Since January 1933 he has occupied the exalted post of commander and promoter of the silver-shirted Silver Legion (claimed membership: 100,000). Galahad Press published Liberation, a weekly magazine with which Shirtman Pelley publicized Silver Shirt ideals, attacked Jews for ruining the world, attacked the Federal Reserve System for being run by Jews, attacked NRA as a plan to sovietize the U. S., referred to Franklin D. Roosevelt as "President Rosenfeld...
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