Word: green
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mirrors. In The Netherland Plaza Hotel's gaudy, marbled Hall of Mirrors, A. F. of L. President William Green convened some 500 delegates for preliminaries to the second, working week of their convention. By reflection from the glassy walls, the delegates saw themselves for what they were: mostly middleaged, fattening, "safe" gentlemen with good cigars. Any businessman would have been at home with them. For they were businessmen who had made, and proposed to preserve, careers in unionism. From them and from their typical President Green came no radical proposals, no departures from the prime strategy...
...remainder of the Big Green backfield is subject to change. Don Norton and Sandy Courter are still battling for varsity quarterback. Both are really too light for college football and neither has had much experience...
CINCINNATI, Ohio--William Green, who rose from the coal mines of Ohio to leadership of 4,000,000 craft union workers, today was elected President of the American Federation of Labor for his 16th consecutive term...
Predictions of an undefeated season for Harvard is beyond the scope of any Crimson rooter. But it's just as foolish to presuppose a season of successive Ivy League defeats for this green but coming Crimson squad...
Dartmouth too had its moments of panic, when the half ended with the score 7-6 over Hampden-Sydney. Although the second half revealed a different story in the form of four touchdowns, the Big Green did not show conclusive proof that it'll dominate Ivy league Circles this fall.... And who ever heard of the Hampden-Sydney football team...