Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovered. Vermonters began to wonder if their Governor was not guilty of another error when he failed to raise his voice against Embezzler Cocklin at the time he was appointed Rutland's assistant city treasurer. With the Governor's errors the chief topic of conversation in the Green Mountain State, State's Attorney Bloomer dug deeper into the defalcation. In the months that followed, Lathrop H. Baldwin, treasurer of the bank, and two other officers were arrested for the part State's Attorney Bloomer said they played in hushing up the crime. Subsequently, charges against...
...game was the most important of the season for both Redskins and Giants because it meant championship of the Eastern Division, one of the two into which U. S. professional football's National League is divided. Championship of the Western Division was clinched last fortnight by the Green Bay Packers. This week the Redskins play the Packers for the League championship...
Professional football in the U. S. started about 40 years ago. It has become a big business in the last two years. When the National League, oldest in the game, started in 1921, a franchise was worth $50. The Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears and New York Giants are now worth about $250,000 each. Last week the nine National League teams had drawn 1,200,000 spectators to their 54 games this season, 20% more than last year. Biggest crowd of the year was 76,000 at a pre-season game between the Detroit Lions and a team...
Since the War, the history of professional football has been in a sense the history of the Green Bay Packers. Organized in 1919. the Packers are the oldest team in the National League. Coach of the Packers since 1919 has been Earl Louis ("Curly") Lambeau, a Green Bay boy who played at Notre Dame in Knute Rockne's first year as head coach. He organized the team, got a local packing company to supply uniforms. Since 1921, when they bought a franchise in the National League, the Packers have not only made the little dairy town of Green...
...margin of one point, having failed to kick a goal after a touchdown against the Chicago Cardinals. This year they played ten games in a row without a similar omission. The Packers lost their second game of the season, 30-to-3, against the Chicago Bears, in Green Bay's City Stadium. The humiliation was so extreme that they won every game thereafter until they clinched the Western Division championship last fortnight...