Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immigrant parents, Del Sesto learned accounting at Boston University ('28), found ample opportunity one year later to put theory to practice auditing the books of collapsing brokerage houses. Entering the state treasurer's office, he eventually became chief accountant, caught the eye of Governor Theodore Francis Green. Green appointed him budget director and controller. When Green went to the Senate in 1937,* he found Del Sesto a Government accounting job in Washington, which Del Sesto used to finance his way through Georgetown University law school. After getting his degree, he returned to Providence, in 1941 became Governor (later...
...Green, now the Senate's dean, is 89. If he should retire or die during Del Sesto's administration, the new governor would likely appoint Republican Bayard Ewing, 40, a Providence lawyer and Republican National Committeeman...
...onetime airplane mechanic, had been faced with a choice at war's end: to return to the hopelessness of the burned-out ruins of Tokyo or to start a new life as pioneers on the far northern island of Hokkaido. Government posters showed Hokkaido's inviting green landscapes, its fat dairy herds, its red brick silos and its snug, warm farmhouses. Along with some 190,000 other Japanese families, the Gotos seized the opportunity...
...five machines stood, rectangular, silver-green, silent. They were obviously not thinking about anything at all as Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini of Milan raised his hand to bless them...
...familiar, instantly recognizable thoughts . . . already-agreed-upon, instantly acceptable attitudes." When he turned to the visual arts, there was somewhat less jaundice in his eye but just as much cheek in his tongue: "I hardly know whether to borrow my simile from the Bible, and say flourishing like the green bay tree, or to borrow it from Shakespeare, and say growing like a weed...