Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explosive Issue. But if Bill Green could forget Lewis in his home town, neither he nor other A.F.L. leaders would forget him in San Francisco this week. As the convention opened, Lewis was still steadfastly refusing to sign the non-Communist affidavit required by the Taft-Hartley...
...monthly visits to tree-shaded Coshocton, where his wife and his unmarried daughter Clara still live in a green-shuttered, red-brick house, Bill Green enjoys the aura which is the reward of famous...
...known throughout central Ohio as a soft touch for bums and loafers. They keep daughter Clara under strict surveillance, follow when she goes to the station to meet her father. As Bill Green steps down from his Pullman they gather round to greet him. The exchange of conversation is always the same. Green says: "It was awfully nice of you fellows to come down to meet me." There is a moment of shuffling and a spokesman for the bums and loafers says something about times being hard, Billy. Green acts surprised and helps out with dollar bills. Everyone goes away...
Christmas is Bill Green's biggest day. His six children, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren move in. The happy president of the A.F.L., who buys toys all year for the occasion, is the lord of all he surveys. He decorates the tree, hands out candy and nuts to the hordes of old friends, miners, businessmen, who call...
Coshocton likes and admires Bill Green. It is one spot in the U.S. where the citizenry thinks he is a bigger man than John Lewis. Coshocton has had a grudge against John L. ever since he came through town and told reporters: "I thought I saw Bill Green, but it was just a baggage man leaning against a post...