Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, getting the green light from a President who sometimes distresses them by recommending gentle treatment of Democrats, Capitol Hill Republicans happily turned on Paul Butler with a collective snarl. Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater rose on the Senate floor to call Butler's statement "another sample of person-smear tactics which have now become typical of Butler's idea of political warfare . . . Our distinguished President and his wife . . . are in sound, healthy and vigorous condition-in vivid contrast to the condition of the man who ran for a fourth term and withheld information...
...bleak November day in 1952, twelve men dressed in somber suits gathered in a waiting room in Coshocton, Ohio. They were members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, and they had just attended the funeral of 82-year-old William Green, their longtime chief. As the labor leaders waited for the train, Green's successor, George Meany, bluntly announced that he had chosen William Schnitzler, of the Bakery Workers Union, to be secretary-treasurer of the federation. Old Dan Tobin, president emeritus of the Teamsters Union, objected angrily. But Meany was unshaken; the election...
...labor elders were flabbergasted. Never before, in all the 28 years of Bill Green, had they seen such rank insubordination on the part of the man they tolerated as their president. Meany had his way, and the following day Schnitzler was elected by a vote of 7-6. From that day on there was no doubt about it; Meany was boss as well as president of the A.F.L. He did not seek power for its own sake; he had some aims in view...
...same year. Lewis' able lieutenant, Philip Murray, held the C.I.O. together by the cohesive pull of his own shining integrity. It took him years to clean out the Communists, an effort that sapped much of the C.I.O.'s energy. When Murray and his bitter rival William Green (both began as coal miners) died within two weeks of each other, it became possible for new men to make a new and serious try at labor unity...
...Snake Pit. In Washington, Meany found his opportunities severely hampered by the senescent William Green, who was jealous of his prerogatives and had no intention of giving the young whippersnapper from New York any real power. A few months after Meany arrived, he was dispatched to Capitol Hill to testify before the House Rules Committee on a labor bill. As usual, he was well prepared, and he made an excellent impression. It was years before Green permitted him to testify on the Hill again...