Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High though the hopes of Mr. Green were, the A. F. of L. in convention sessions was not precisely the picture of a fighting machine. Purple tirades against John L. Lewis seldom roused the stolid, hardheaded delegates to more than perfunctory applause. A stirring denunciation of the Sit-Down by Mr. Green brought hardly a dozen handclaps...
Labor Society. Even less like a fighting machine was the convention out of session. A joy to Denver's hotelmen, the unionists ate expensively, drank extensively, took all the best rooms and confined their fun mainly to poker. Mr. Green stayed in an $18-per-day suite in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he was served by a union waiter, had his bed made by a non-union chambermaid. Across the street in the Brown Palace, Michael Carrozzo of the Hod Carriers, Building & Common Laborers' Union had a $15-per-day suite. Two delegates from the International Union...
Actually the rules were not changed. The credentials committee simply stalled. Efforts to spur the committee to action were futile, though so strenuous at one time that Bill Green broke his gavel pounding for order. Apparently the plan was to stall until Typographer Howard departed for the gathering of C. I. O. leaders this week in Atlantic City, where, as Mr. Howard observed dryly, he usually took a vacation "at this time of year...
...Manhattan, sarcastic Mr. Lewis retorted: "Surely the mild-mannered Mr. Green is not going to march 3,000,000 members of the American Federation of Labor against an equal number of the Committee for Industrial Organization! He might be charged with disturbing the peace. Or some member of the ladies' auxiliary of the Transport Workers might hit him with a powder puff...
...sseldorf. At the Georgette Passedoit Gallery were 23 oddities by a healthily impudent 21-year-old Danish girl named Isa Neuhaus. In the U. S. for one year, she has had 20-minute sittings with Bishop Manning, painted subtly all in mauve; Leslie Howard, all in green; Mayor LaGuardia...