Word: leatherizing
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...Veterans of Foreign Wars, where, as its onetime national commander, he is heard with respect. He hoped to get out to see his constituents in industrial Schenectady, in the hilly resort country of Hamilton County. But first he had to face a union delegation headed by the C.I.O. United Leather Workers, bosses of the men & women who fashion the fine, expensive, hand-stitched gloves in Gloversville's aged brick factories...
...union men seemed to be boiling. The Leather Workers rank among C.I.O.'s most leftist groups; they mince no words. Their program is simple: all-out support of Franklin Roosevelt and Russia. Bluntly their leader told Congressman Kearney: "Your labor record smells...
Last week, during his interlude in North Africa, Patton's eyes and stars were bright. Seated in a British command car, he slapped his leather-bound swagger stick into the palm of his hand and invited a correspondent to return to the action with...
Next to a mountain stream which runs down the steep slope were nine more bodies within a 25-yd. area. There were plenty of bullet clips in the little leather cases which hung on the wearers' belts. Near the bottom of the slope lay the body of a Japanese captain. His silk white handkerchief was centered by a lewd ink sketch. A couple of hundred yards down the valley we found a dead Japanese officer who carried, like most Japs, photographs of his wife and children. It had rained the previous night, so the officer's open mouth...
Across the green leather benches and jarrah parquet floors of Canberra's House of Representatives the honorable members shouted and carried on like aborigines at a corroboree. Through three acrimonious days the Labor Government and the Opposition called each other names, including traitor. Then, after beating a no-confidence motion by one vote, Prime Minister John Curtin decided to take the issue to the country. A general election was slated for August...