Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall appreciate it very much if you will tell me who it was in Greenfield Village that told the reporter for TIME Magazine that Stephen Foster once lived in the "little white house with green shutters," past which Governor Landon was driven on Oct. 13. I was assured by a Greenfield Village executive last August that they intended to stop calling it the Foster homestead, and the Foster birthplace, and would henceforth represent the house merely as a Stephen Foster Memorial. It is of the utmost importance to me to know whether the building is still being falsely labeled with...
...tied his fortunes securely to those of Franklin Roosevelt, refused to bargain until after election. Last week in Pittsburgh he confidently refused the Dubinsky-Zaritsky demands for a negotiating committee. Best he would offer was to meet personally with A. F. of L.'s President William Green. His peace terms, said strong John Lewis would be: 1) reinstatement of suspended C. L O. unions; 2) A. F. of L. consent to the organization of U. S. mass-production workers in industrial unions. Since the fight was about nothing but the conflict of C. I. O. industrial unions with...
President Green promptly telegraphed his willingness to meet with the C. I. O. chairman, but added that he lacked authority to alter the Executive Council's policy...
Growled Chairman Lewis, rejecting this proposal as futile, "I'm too busy to meet Mr. Green socially...
...Beltramo, an Italian, celebrated the Roosevelt election by inventing the Forty-Eight States Roosevelt Cocktail. Ingredients: 10 "states" of white Dutch curaçao; 10 "states" of English gin; 8 of grapefruit juice; 18 of French vermouth; one of angostura bitters, representing Maine; and a final "state" of absinthe, green as the forests of Vermont, dripped in on top of the finished cocktail. Urged Barman Beltramo, "Drink one and see the landslide...