Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playing David. He could not have picked a better year to play David. The late Representative William Green's once-smooth Philadelphia organization had turned increasingly fractious under Democratic City Chairman Francis Smith. It broke down when it backed State Senator Robert Casey, 34, a Scranton attorney, for the gubernatorial nomination. Shapp, guided by Joseph Napolitan, a J.F.K. pollster in 1960, mercilessly-derided Casey and exalted his own independence by calling himself "the man against the machine...
...Francisco Local 4, the brotherhood's largest, Wilson waged a tireless battle against union officials' chicanery, citing as one instance a union-employer welfare fund in Sacramento that he claimed had been mishandled. Wilson was shot to death for his pains April 5. This month Lloyd Green, another crusading official of the same union, met the same fate. After the arrest (TIME, May 20) of five murder suspects-two of whom had been fund trustees, another its auditor-authorities understandably started taking a closer look at the disputed $500,000 welfare account...
Wilson's assassination prompted outraged demands for an investigation of the painters' international leadership. The outcry was redoubled this month when Lloyd Green, 45, a Wilson ally from the nearby Alameda County local, was killed by a shotgun blast hours after his men had rejected a dues increase ordered by Raftery's headquarters...
...control 90% of the nation's crop), and in the plush, air-conditioned clubs above Cholon's shops, coatless, tieless Chinese businessmen in bright Hawaiian sport shirts gather to chiao-chi-transact business in as pleasurable a manner as possible. In clubs such as the Chins Shan (Green Mountain) and Lo-t'ien (Happy Sky), the walls echo to the rattle of mah-jongg stones and the click of poker chips on black teak tables. Plenty of business is consummated as well...
...Green. The economic sticking point is still Britain's cosseted agricultural structure. But Wilson seems privately resigned, as the Tories were not in 1961 and 1962, to the fact that Britain will probably have to accept the existing club rules as the price of admission. For the Europeans, even the West Germans and Dutch, who most desire Britain's partnership in the EEC, still have lingering doubts about London's commitment to the European ideal of unity. And there is always the giant question mark of Charles de Gaulle, who said non once before and could...