Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time Mr. Green turned in the card he has held for 48 years in the United Mine Workers, leaving him no more than an honorary member of the Chicago Musicians Union. Presumably he will join the down-&-out Progressive Miners of America, recognition of which by the A.F. of L. was the basis of the Lewis charges of "treason." Bill Green's eyes were filled with tears when reporters filed in to hear the announcement...
Real as it was to old Mr. Green, the A.F. of L.'s action seemed strangely unreal. The Mine Workers had already read themselves out, as even the ouster resolution noted. Nor was it explained why of all C.I.O. unions the ax had fallen on the Flat Glass Workers and the Smelters, both relatively unimportant. Logical union to go and the one expected to go was Sidney Hillman's big Amalgamated Clothing Workers. But whatever the strategy may have been one thing was sure: it was not in the interests of labor peace...
...reporter who did not get in was Columnist Heywood Broun, an accomplished Green-baiter. He was barred by Mr. Green's new pressagent, Philip Pearl, who resented Broun's description of his job as "streamlining" Bill Green...
...chief interest to Philadelphians was a large canvas by Philadelphia's excellent, liberal artist, George Biddle, entitled Family Portrait (see cut). It shows the tousled artist in his famous grey-green suit, his brother Francis, lawyer and onetime chairman of the first National Labor Relations Board, in a blue coat, and the youngest of the Biddle brothers, Sydney, a Philadelphia psychiatrist. Absent is the eldest brother, Moncure ("Monk") Biddle. An investment broker, he alone of the four upholds the tradition of their ancestor, Nicholas Biddle, who was president of the Bank of the United States and Andrew Jackson...
...Union's macaw, Lorito, when that platitude-hating bird garnished a radio speech by President Herbert Hoover with a raucous Bronx cheer. Recently Lorito's obscene outcries (in Spanish & Portuguese) were silenced forever when he was done to death by David, the Union's gaudy green parrot. Last week, the parrot-murderer, possessed of Lorito's testy spirit, interrupted Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was giving a speech to the Union (on Davis Cup drawings), with a Bronx cheer so vigorous that it would have warmed the heart of Herbert Hoover...