Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Matching stride for stride with tens of thousands of tanned, healthy, spade-carrying German Labor Front workers who tramped across Nürnberg's green field, tens of thousands of tanned and healthy young Russian parachute jumpers, pilots and sharpshooters, children clutching airplane models and girls in nurses' uniforms trooped across Red Square behind dipped crimson banners. The only direct reference to Germany among the hundreds of banners attacking Fascism and aggressor nations were those proclaiming "Bolshevist greetings to the revolutionary proletariat in Germany...
...eyes of Mexicans, their popular President had just been figuratively flashed a green light by Washington to go ahead with his seizure of foreign properties in Mexico without compensation. Every Mexican remembers the red light which President Woodrow Wilson had flashed on April 21, 1914 from the fighting top of the U. S. S. Arkansas. This signal started the bombardment of Veracruz by ships of U. S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and within a few months unacceptable President Huerta was forced to resign...
Last week's figurative green light was flashed by Josephus Daniels, now U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and an admiring friend of New Dealer Cardenas. The envoy of an unnamed third State called on Ambassador Daniels, warned him that President Cardenas was almost sure to make a speech rejecting the note in which Secretary Hull recently demanded immediate compensation for the seized properties, and offered to join the U. S. Ambassador in snubbing Orator Cardenas by staying away from his speech. Mr. Daniels refused this offer, genially let it be known that, since he understands hardly a word...
Growled John Lewis: "Green's statement is characteristic of "what might be expected from any traitorous renegade...
Last week, Henry George Stebbins Noble applied to the committee on admissions to have his seat transferred to his grandson, 22-year-old Henry Stebbins Noble. Fresh from Yale ('38), where he was a ranking economics scholar, a 150-pound oarsman, Henry Noble is a green clerk in the big odd-lot firm of De Coppet & Doremus, will act as one of their floor brokers. On his family record, he is the No. 1 candidate for president of the Stock Exchange during the Panic...