Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work Done. To set up and run this very first agency of the First New Deal, the President chose Tennessee-born, Georgia-raised Robert Fechner. Because Robert Fechner was an A. F. of L. unionist, and A. F. of L.'s William Green had at first opposed CCC as "forced labor," the choice was bound to be interpreted...
...hour for lunch, off work at 4 p.m.; mail at 4:30; change to Army issue olive drab or khaki for formation and "dress inspection" (instituted a year ago to spruce up the corps) at 5 p.m. Last fortnight Franklin Roosevelt authorized a new forest green uniform, to be issued next fall-when the corps may be not only distinctive but permanent...
...quoted as saying that after the regular six-month CCC enrollment a graduate was "85% prepared for military life." His publicity man says a reporter put the figure in his mouth; he meant 50%. Army officers consider three months' intensive training the minimum necessary to turn a green man into a conscript fighter, thinks CCCers may be useful after a month of drill & discipline. Other military potentials of CCC: the permanent, continuously up-to-date list of CCC names kept at the Army's nine Corps Area headquarters; a reservoir of air corps mechanics...
...Green-shirted Rumanian Fascists (Iron Guards) used to do their killings with bombs and rifles made in secret arsenals. Their organization outlawed, their top leaders shot, the Iron Guards were discovered last week to have been not only hatching new plots but making new weapons. When a German-owned factory near Bucharest was raided, it was found that under an army lieutenant a crew of workmen, chauffeurs and students was making flamethrowers that would burn a foe to a crisp at 100 yards. Green shirts said they had planned to take over the Government "even if we had to burn...
...Lightbody, Franny King, Joe Donnelly, and Hobart Lerner, running against Yale and Princeton in the Big Three heat of the mile relay, have their work cut out to beat the Tiger aggregation. A green Eli four does not look so formidable...