Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Green sounds to me like a 7-year-old boy defying his parents," rumbled John L. Lewis at a huge mass meeting of C. I. O.'s Transport Workers' Union in Manhattan last week. "He speaks with much sound and fury. He goes into a trance and words come forth that are meaningless. He becomes inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity...
This time hulking John Lewis was belaboring Bill Green for saying at the A. F. of L. convention in Denver that Mr. Lewis was motivated by "consuming" political ambition. Mr. Lewis admitted "some political ambitions." They were, he said: 1) the re-election of Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, 2) to see Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, promoted next year from Lieutenant Governor to Governor of Pennsylvania. 3) to see New York State's American Labor party develop into "a major political party" and 4) to see the "C. I. 0. ticket...
...American Federation of Labor. It was A. F. of L.'s 57th, the fourth held in Denver. There in 1894 the late Samuel Gompers received his first and only defeat for the A. F. of L. presidency. There in the same building 1 6 years ago William Green, then the inconspicuous pink-cheeked secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, uprose to nominate John L. Lewis for the A. F. of L. presidency. Mr. Lewis was defeated but three years later he returned the courtesy by boosting Bill Green into the job he could not get himself...
Little time was wasted last week on the ironies of Labor politics in Denver. Keynoting to the delegates and later to the nation in a radio broadcast, President Green swore he would drive the C. I. O. out of existence. "The clock has struck. The hour is here. . . ." he cried. "Our patient, long-suffering, hopeful group of organized workers and their representatives will now change from a position of watchful waiting and earnest appeal to the greatest fighting machine that was ever created within the ranks of Labor...
Baltimore: Harlow everybody, Harlow. On the way Downes from Boston one of the Green Players, feeling his Oakes, get Kevorkian around one of the Coleman's Daughters and almost got his fingers Burnett...