Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hotel one day last week. A score of photographers squatted in the corridor with lenses trained on the elevator. Newsreel men fidgeted with their cameras. Reporters milled around in the glare of light reflectors. Suddenly the door opened, an elevator boy gave them a prearranged nod, and President William Green of the American Federation of Labor stepped forth accompanied by George McGregor Harrison, head of A. F. of L.'s three-man committee currently trying to reunite the divided House of Labor. Waving his hands in inarticulate dismay, Mr. Green dashed for Suite No. 301-304, followed...
Disgruntled by Mr. Green's reluctance to pose for them, the photographers and cameramen settled down for another wait. Suddenly they spied Chairman John L. Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organization striding, not from the elevator, but down the corridor, accompanied by Philip Murray, head of the C. I. O.'s ten-man peace committee. Calm and silent, Messrs. Lewis & Murray waited for the newsreel men to shift their light and focus, obligingly posed for a hundred stills. Then they, too, vanished into Suite...
Arranged by astute Phil Murray when the formal peace negotiations had come to a standstill after six weeks of intermittent effort (TIME, Nov. 8), this was the first time Bill Green and John Lewis had met face to face since an unpublicized meeting in a Washington hotel seven months ago. They mumbled greetings to each other but did not shake hands. Later when a reporter asked Mr. Green if it had been "Bill" and "John" again, Mr. Green, whose manner with the Press is not one of his strong points, flushed, gulped and trailed off with a weak "Well...
Since his Sophomore year, Green has missed starting but once, the Davidson game, receiving his first injury in the Army game...
Yesterday afternoon Green was all enthusiasm in regard to the team's prospects and expressed his eagerness for spring practice. Speaking of the Cornell game, second on next fall's schedule he said, "If we win there'll be nothing to stop us . . . I think we'll have a wonderful team...