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Said one Tokyo silk exporter last week: "Among silk exporters the Honorable Tilton is on a level equal to the mulberry leaf and the silkworm." The Honorable Tilton is Marion Elizabeth Tilton, 35, the tall (5 ft. 9 in.), pretty Far East boss of Cohn-Hall-Marx (Cohama Fabrics). In the last ten years, almost singlehanded she has rewoven Japan's quality silk industry, putting it in shape to compete in the U.S. with the flood of postwar synthetics. Under the tutelage of the onetime New York model and wartime Red Cross girl, Japan's silk output rose...
...Marion Tilton went to work in Japan for SCAP in 1946 to encourage the growth of Japan's silk industry, once the nation's biggest dollar earner. It seemed a hopeless job. A wartime government order scrapping silk looms as nonessential wrecked the industry in Japan, while U.S. scientists wrecked it abroad by giving women a new set of materials which no hard-working silkworm could hope to match...
Silk to War. Marion Tilton's first job was to convince the textile men that silk stockings were finished. She did this by appearing in nylon stockings at factories, at geisha parties, town banquets, whereever there was an audience. She talked about the new U.S. synthetics, then dramatically rolled down her nylons, pulled, stretched, even washed them. She persuaded textile men to compete in the U.S. in fabrics...
...late. The Tiltons were great pals of the suffragettes, and Mrs. Tilton's secret became known to the sharpest battle-ax of the women's movement, Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull. "The Woodhull," as the papers called her, was a freeloving fortuneteller and spiritualist who, according to Commodore Vanderbilt, furnished him with valued market tips; on the platform she would point to her "brevet husband," a Civil War veteran named Colonel Blood, and yelp: "There stands my lover, but when I cease to love him, I shall leave him." When The Woodhull was attacked for living a libertine life...
Flowery Denials. A special investigating committee of the Plymouth Church, chosen by Beecher, pronounced the pastor innocent. But in the end, Husband Tilton's forbearance gave out, and he sued Beecher for alienation of affections...