Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mere flyspeck on the expense account, of timid-looking souls who may have been frightened by stern letters of invitation, of would-be office holders, of nobodies whose sense of importance was enlarged by attending a $100 dinner. Two noteworthy guests were Messrs. Walter P. Chrysler and William Green. Madam Secretary Perkins and Madam Director of the Mint Ross were among the very few women guests, for most Democrats did not put up an extra $100 to feed their wives...
While soft William Green talked, hard John Lewis was acting. Driving on against the second of the automobile industry's Big Three, his U.A.W. lieutenants opened their Chrysler conference with a bold demand for sole recognition, were refused, showed their strength this week by calling a sit-down which closed all of Chrysler's automobile plants in the Detroit area, throwing 55,000 employes out of work. Shut, too, by U.A.W. sit-downs were three Hudson plants employing 10,000 men. In Akron last week a walkout by C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers closed Firestone Tire & Rubber...
First-line critics do not admit that James Hilton (Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips) has anything more or better than 1) an ability to write smooth narrative; 2) an infectious British sentimentality. But such cat-laughs have been drowned out by the popular verdict. All but the most sea-green critics would agree that to have two novels simultaneously reproduced in the cinema* is equivalent to one plaster bust in the Hall of Fame. Last week Author Hilton put out his latest little number, the first to appear in three years. First readers found it about the same size...
...Yard Breaststroke--Won by Jameson, Harvard; Green, Navy, second; Monroe, Harvard, third. Time...
...paper's white staff, and since his married chief dined at home and he at the club, heard daily what his readers thought of him. The manifold duties of his job, the consciousness of being an English sahib, matured Kipling precociously. He was green, but not for long. "My Chief took me in hand and for three years or so I loathed him. He had to break me in, and I knew nothing." He lived with his family, but often had the house to himself when they were away in the Hills; he had his own servant...