Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the many newspaper tales of sots and suicides arising last week from the Bonus payment of $1,900,000,000 in black & green $50 bonds, the average Veteran played a watchful, waiting game. American Legion questionnaires had estimated that the 3,500,000 recipients would spend 30% of the money toward payment of debts and old bills, 7% for housing repairs, 6% for automobiles, 7% for clothing, the rest in a free & easy manner. Of the same opinion, merchants of every variety had flooded the mails with circulars, kept their stores wide open at night. Get-rich-quick promoters...
Died. Edward Howland Robinson Green, 67, uninhibited son of the late miserly Hetty Green, onetime world's richest woman; in Lake Placid, N. Y. Believing that "the best way to get pleasure out of money is to spend it," he would pay his eleven foster-daughters 15? a page for typewriting, then tear up the pages...
Along the creaky main corridor of the old red-brick building of the Army Medical Library in Washington last week strode the librarian, Major Edgar Erskine Hume, a proud and happy man. In his hand he carried a green clothbound book fresh from the Government Printing Office. Nodding happily to library workers, doctors and military men whom he passed, Major Hume, a medium-tall Kentuckian, pushed through the swinging shutter of his office door, put hat and coat in a wardrobe whose dried panels rattled, sat down at the solid oak desk which all preceding librarians of the greatest medical...
...UNDER GREEN APPLE BOUGHS-Lucile Grebenc-Doubleday, Doran...
...Author Grebenc retreated to her dilapidated week-end cottage in Connecticut, sent for U. S. Bureau of Agriculture pamphlets, began scientifically to cultivate her small vegetable garden. At the end of summer she had a renovated dwelling, a cellar full of food preserved for winter, $7.15 in cash. Under Green Apple Boughs...