Word: green
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrists slashed, dead. In Rockhill, S. C., the United Textile Workers held a conference, proclaimed "No Communists wanted here," announced their firm intention of organizing the whole southern textile industry under the A. F. of L. At Washington, Senator Wheeler of Montana introduced, at the request of President William Green of the A. F. of L., a resolution for a Federal investigation of the textile South...
...brown sweater and a brown sports hat- Mrs. Dorothy Shearer Higbie of Detroit. At the beginning of her match with Collett the latter, though serious, seemed to be thinking of something else. Suddenly news spread over the course that Miss Collett and Mrs. Higbie had left the fourteenth green and that Mrs. Higbie was four up. Galleries and officials who deserted other matches to watch them finish saw something to remember. They saw Miss Collett play reckless, perfect golf to win the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth holes. Needing one more hole to keep the match alive she drove a long...
...safe to say that for the last three years the Chicago team has shown a profit. This year, playing to 1,500,000 patrons in Chicago alone, the team must have been returning a profit on its investment at which General Motors or Standard Oil would probably turn enviously green. When his team made certain of winning the pennant, Mr. Wrigley told all the players to have a big evening at his expense; adding that he would not honor any expense account for less than $50. Quieter in manner, taller and thinner in figure, less pretentious but nonetheless admired...
...Green, chairman of the inauguration committee, will preside at the program, which includes, besides Presidents Lowell and Angell, President Farrand of Cornell, Dr. A. E. Stearns, headmaster of Phillips Academy, and President F. P. Day of Union College...
...Wann, Okla., Rancher Al Gottlieb told how his pastures were parched with drought, how his 500 steers refused to eat the yellow grass, became lean. He went to Kansas City, said he bought 500 pairs of green goggles, fitted them on the steers. Then they ate ravenously, grew...