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Feenie Fraggle (performed by Jerry Nelson) - A good-natured, but rather slow-witted Fraggle who is the best friend of Large Marvin Fraggle. Felix the Fearless (performed by Bob Stutt) - A tan Fraggle with green and gray hair who serves as head of the Fraggle Rescue Squad.
The New York Times crossword is a daily American-style crossword puzzle published in The New York Times, syndicated to more than 300 other newspapers and journals, and released online on the newspaper's website and mobile apps as part of The New York Times Games. [1][2][3][4][5] The puzzle is created by various freelance constructors and has ...
The Atlanta washerwomen strike of 1881 was a labor strike in Atlanta, Georgia involving African American washerwomen. It began on July 19, 1881, and lasted into August 1881. [1] The strike began as an effort to establish better pay, more respect and autonomy, and a uniform base salary for their work.
Look up washerwoman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bronze sculpture by Renoir, 1916. A washerwoman or laundress is a woman who takes in laundry. Both terms are now old-fashioned; equivalent work nowadays is done by a laundry worker in large commercial premises, or a laundrette (laundromat) attendant.
The Collar Laundry Union was the first all-female labor union in the United States. [1] It was started in Troy, New York by Kate Mullany in 1864. [2] [3] At the time, being a laundress was a difficult job. An almost exclusively female occupation, laundresses worked 12 to 14 hours a day for very low pay in very hot buildings (which led to the ...
The International Association of Cleaning and Dye House Workers (CDHW) was a labor union representing workers in laundries and the dyeing industry in the United States. The union was founded and chartered by the American Federation of Labor on January 21, 1937. By 1953, it had 20,000 members. The union transferred to the new AFL-CIO in 1955.
February 27, 2024 at 4:28 AM. The case of a Paterson laundry worker who sued her employer after a workplace accident caused the amputation of her hand will soon go to trial after a judge's ruling ...
Emma Carola Woerishoffer was born in New York City, the daughter of German-born banker Charles Frederick Woerishoffer and Anna Uhl Woerishoffer. [1] Her grandmother was journalist and philanthropist Anna Ottendorfer. In 1886, her father died, leaving her a large inheritance. She attended the Brearley School and Bryn Mawr College, studying ...