Word: green
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After great uncertainty the council chose a design by Sculptor Alexandre Zeitlin and Architect Robert Lafferty, both of Manhattan. The model shows Gompers standing on a triangular pedestal with workingmen at each corner, looking up at him, shining searchlights upon him at night. President Green, awarding no contract to the prize winners, explained that the model "might be modified somewhat to suit the ideas of the Council...
...score of sculptors and architects journeyed hopefully with their models which they set around the sun parlor of the Ambassador Hotel. The executive council made inspections, heard explanations and descriptions. Plain men themselves, they were puzzled by the artistic conceptions of Labor placed before them. Cried President William Green: "I'm wearied of always seeing Labor pictured bearing a burden. Labor is free." Remarked another troubled councilman: "Some of these would be all right if the sculptor could be chained to the job to tell people what it's all about. But what could be done when...
Waiting for them at the gate was Prince Ernst Rüiger von Starhemberg, a Gemsbart (beard of a chamois) jutting proudly from the back of his green felt hat, his grey and green hunter's coat tightly bone-buttoned...
...Notable: Armand's Powder, Chamberlain Medicine, Hawkeye Portland Cement, Rollins Hosiery, Green Colonial Furnace, Falcon Milling, Sheuerman Woolen Mills. Old Golden Coffee & Spices, Standard Biscuit, Waterbury Chemical...
More than 1,000 people crowded into Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week to attend a banquet in honor of a Chiropractor. Otto Hermann Kahn, financier and music patron, lauded the Chiropractor. So did William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. So did dapper James John Walker, mayor and candidate for mayor of New York City. Finally the Chiropractor himself arose and talked about ''the mechanization of the art." To the art of kneading and pummeling spines he did not refer, but to the art of Music. For the speaker was Joseph N. Weber...