Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YOUR UNCLE DAVID Uncle David Graham, Farmer Green Valley, Somers...
Meanwhile if you'll sort of appint me as vice president of the Former Apple Butter Stirrers' Society Fer the Purpose of Promulgatin, Promotin and Perpetuatin Memories of Apple Butter Stirrin Days I'll se what we kin do in Green Valley to help on the Perpetuatin. I got another nephew up at Cherry Hill mebbe you never heerd of, names Henry O'Hope. I rember one time when Henry was a little kodger his ma and him come over to make us a visit. His Aunt Sarah an me was stirrin Apple Butter out back...
Politics. Last week, the Legion heard speeches by Secretary of War Woodring, Governor Lehman, William Green (see col. 3). Commander Colmery's Dinner for Distinguished Guests was attended by 1,000, including 15 Governors. Herbert Hoover, following Secretary of State Hull as an after-dinner speaker, made a friendly gesture towards old-fashioned Democrats. Said he: "It would be a distinction to anyone, at any time, to follow Secretary of State Mr. Cordell Hull. . . . He holds our confidence and our good wishes...
...after Samuel Gompers was laid in his grave in Tarrytown, N. Y. in 1924, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor announced his successor as chief of U. S. Labor: William Green. No one was more surprised than inconspicuous Mr. Green. Old Cigarmaker Gompers, who regarded the A. F. of L. as his own personal property, had willed the job to Matthew Woll, head of the little Photo Engravers Union. But having grown restive under long Gompers rule, the individualistic members of the A. F. of L. high command were in no mood to honor the cigarmaker...
...bitterly opposed Mr. Lewis-something which Mr. Lewis never forgot or forgave. Therefore with the aid of other rebels against the dead hand, Mr. Lewis pitch-forked into the nation's No. 1 Labor office, the pink-cheeked secretary-treasurer of his United Mine Workers. So William Green, a quiet, cautious character virtually unknown out side his own union, became and still is, president...