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...South Africa's textile factories, white girls, most of them Afrikaners (of Dutch descent), work willingly alongside half-caste and Negro girls. The man mainly responsible for such amity is a 50-year-old Russian-born Jew named Emil Solomon Sachs. Secretary of the garment workers' union for 24 years and known to its 20,000 devoted members as "Solly," Labor Leader Sachs has helped raise their average weekly wage from $3 to $24 over the years...
Died. William Fox, 73, onetime grand panjandrum of Hollywood, producer of such hits as Cleopatra (with Theda Bara), Seventh Heaven and What Price Glory; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, ex-Newsboy and ex-Garment Worker Fox launched himself in the entertainment world when he used his $1,666.66 savings to buy a rundown Brooklyn nickelodeon. In 1915 he formed the Fox Film Corp., pyramided it (on paper) by 1929 into a $300 million empire, amassed a personal fortune of $35 million. But the cost of equipping 1,100 Fox theaters for talking pictures proved...
...most Britons pay for ordinary shoes, and those who must now pay $7 for a wig will not have to pay over the months for haircuts. As for charging $2.80 for abdominal belts, "so far as women are concerned, this belt frequently takes the place of a generally worn garment by which they endeavor to conceal their inches and hold up their stockings," and which usually costs a good deal more...
...Crease resistance" and easy "wash-ability" are the essential qualities the college girl will demand before investing in a garment for summer wear this year...
Bellows & Fire. Next, he put his thought into a religious and social tract a book which he assured his friends was "needed by all." When it was published a pious and disjointed tirade, his friends turned on him with angry reproaches. Gogol, whose bravado was the thinnest garment of self-loathing, broke and piteously begged forgiveness. "One drop of your pity," was all he asked. Few gave it Gogol lost his grip on the ladder...