Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green's Flats. It was an early spring day in 1893 when Ned Green arrived in the sleepy Texas town of Terrell, the owner of a wretched little railroad his mother had foreclosed on. He announced he would turn two streaks of rust into "one of the best railroads in the Southwest." First thing he did after depositing $500,000 in Terrell's bank was to buy uniforms for a baseball team and start a brass band...
...Green did everything he said he would. He made his Texas Midland a model railroad boasting the first electrically-lighted coaches in the State. Any promising enterprise attracted his backing: cattle and farm lands, business buildings, oil wells, mines. And in nearly every venture he was successful. His hobbies were innumerable: racing automobiles, photography, boll-weevil eradication, stamps (his collection was the world's largest), astronomy...
...Colonel Green* became a life member of the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias, but the upright Masons refused him membership. "Green's Flats," his bachelor quarters above Terrell's old Harris Opera House, were one of the town's gay places. Once the Town Marshal had to tell the Colonel to get rid of the women staying there. Barked the Marshal: "I don't care if you are the son of the richest woman in the world, you can't do such a thing in this town." The Colonel gulped...
...Green Ways. After 1910, Colonel Green spent more & more time away from Texas tending to his own scattered financial interests and those of his mother. In 1917, after his mother's death, he married redheaded Mabel Harlow, two years his junior, and long his close friend, in Chicago, and then built a fortress-like, 100-room mansion on Buzzards Bay at South Dartmouth, Mass. He maintained a palatial retreat on Star Island near Miami Beach and a penthouse atop the swank Sherry-Netherlands Hotel in Manhattan. He was at Lake Placid for his health last June. At the time...
Since Colonel Green's widow could find no executed will, she sent to Texas a lawyer who asked for her appointment as administratrix of the estate at a $1,000,000 fee. Since Colonel Green was a Texan to Texans, this request was granted in ten minutes...