Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maketh me to rake leaves in green pastures: he dameth up for me the still waters...
...more irrepressible of those who went West for gold, gambling and glamor. Instead of dying out with the establishment of law & order, Vigilantism in California remains a potent and honored means of squelching those suspected of Communism. Typical was the treatment accorded last August to Silva M. A. ("Jack") Green, sign painter. and Sol Nitzberg. chicken raiser. Reds who promoted an apple-pickers' strike in Sonoma County. One night a band of unknowns seized Green and Nitzberg, clipped their hair, stripped them to the waist, doused them in crankcase oil, feathered them, paraded them through the streets of Santa...
...returned from Europe, made his appearance at the council table. Promptly Fourth Vice President John Coefield of the plumbers' and steamfitters' union challenged his right to be present because his union was on trial. Astutely Mr. Dubinsky reminded Mr. Coefield that, if that rule were followed, President Green, who is a member of the United Mine Workers, had no right on the premises either. Mr. Green ruled that Mr. Dubinsky could stay. Then Mr. Dubinsky pleaded that action on the C. I. O. be deferred until the A. F. of L. Convention next November...
Later that afternoon the doors of the banquet hall were thrown open. The A. F. of L.'s 13 vice presidents filed out, newshawks and cinemen filed in. When everything was set President Green read the council's decision. Suspension for ten C. I. O. unions within 30 days, unless they abandon their organization.* Said Mr. Green...
Left. By the late Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, whose mother, miserly Hetty Green, specified in her will that the family fortune remain intact; to his sister, Mrs. Sylvia Green Wilks, an estate estimated at $80,000,000; in Port Henry, N. Y. Mrs. Mabel Harlow Green got nothing, but was made administrator of the fortune by a Texas judge. Claimed last week by officials of New York, Massachusetts, Texas and the U. S. were $65,000,000 in inheritance taxes...