Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inference is drawn that Governor Green night have members of the Board of Regents of the University replaced to bring about a condition more favorable to his ideas. So far as is the prerogative of the Governor of Michigan concerned, his power lies in the veto of appropriation bills or in limitations by the Administrative Board, which allocates funds in accordance with the condition of the State Treasury...
First, a bit of criticism: it is contended by a recent statement printed in the Dallas Morning News that the United States Senate, four years or so ago, appropriated from public funds, $7,500, to be paid to Senator Green of Vermont. It is contended that this amount was voted to the Senator that he might pay his surgeon and doctor bills incident to treatment of a serious disability received when hit by a stray bullet fired by warring bootleggers on historic Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. I am satisfied that this is a correct statement of fact...
Vermont's Green, shot Feb. 15, 1924, as a bystander in a Pennsylvania Avenue rum-gun fracas, was voted $7,500 by the Senate. He spent the money to pay immediate medical bills, later repaying the full amount to the Senate Contingent Fund. A permanent pension for him was discussed but never voted...
Just two inches taller than his 57-inch billiard cue, Kinrey Matsuyama casts a giant shadow upon the green-baize background of billiards. Two years...
...correspondent: "Who do they think they are? Keeping out the whole world press!" (The delegates settle into their places around the green baize-topped conference table...