Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reduction in wages that has been imposed and enforced in spite of the opposition and protest of the workers affected. The representatives of the textile manufacturing interests cannot justify their position before the American people, either economically or morally. There are two factors that made President Green's letter very telling - in matters of politics if not in the Labor situation: 1) Because it is an attack on the effectiveness of high tariff, dovetailing with the argument of Democrats that the Republican high tariff does not protect even those who are supposed to be its chief beneficiaries; 2) because...
...blooded Cherokee Indian from Sweetwater named Ted Court or "Texas," were in Chicago for a rodeo. They fell in with three amiable young Chicagoans, and all five became intoxicated-the Texans most extraordinarily. That being the case, they decided to take an automobile ride. They piled into a light green automobile, drove north along Michigan Avenue, to the point where it merges into Lake Shore Drive. There they ran past the Drake Hotel, one of the most fashionable in Chicago, and turned east on Walton Place along the north side of the hotel. There they stopped and entered the great...
...street, the three Chicago youths entered their car. "Texas," following drunkenly, got into the wrong automobile by mistake. Two policemen dashed up. Dazed, he began to fire. One of them shot him through the heart. Three half-drunken robbers in a light green car sped east along Lake Shore Drive, turned south with the shoreline, then west to Michigan Avenue, then north again past the hotel with a burst of speed, having completely circled the scene of their crime. Lincoln Park policemen on the running boards of commandeered automobiles followed, volleying. Up the "Gold Coast," with pretentious residences...
...Geneva, close by the Secretariat of the League of Nations, stands a handsome villa, the Villa Bartholoni. In some quarters it is expected that the future assembly hall of the League will be erected on the very ground where the Villa Bartholini rises in modest pulchritude below the deep green mountain walls, the snow-capped peaks. Not immediately, however, will the villa be razed. Last week it was rented for the month of September to an American, a woman who wished to be at hand to observe the workings of the Sixth Assembly of the League, who came...
...strong force of Green Police (German) and some French civilians were the only onlookers. Suddenly a sharp command broke the mortuary silence. The scene abruptly became charged with the tension of things about to happen. There was a snap, much shuffling and slapping as rifles came to a general salute. Then silence. General Guilleaume, commanding the French troops in the Ruhr area, had appeared on the steps of his headquarters. After reviewing the assembled troops, the General turned toward the building out of which he had come, stood at attention with the troops as honors were paid to the Tricolor...