Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open war. Though the fateful declaration was postponed by the American Federation of Labor's Executive Council, meeting in Washington last week, and though the contending forces were still formally united in the Federation, the battle lines were already clearly drawn. On one side were ranged William Green and his fellow craft unionists, representing nearly two-thirds of A. F. of L.'s membership. Beneficiaries of an entrenched order, they would fight to preserve it. Against them stood John Llewellyn Lewis and his fellow industrial unionists of the Committee for Industrial Organization, representing...
...impending struggle, victory for Green & allies would mean that organized Labor was to remain split in a hundred quarreling groups, patterned on a vanished industrial structure and excluding from its ranks the great mass of workers in the nation's industries. Victory for Lewis & allies would open the way for organized Labor to adapt itself to the times, fulfill its enormous potentialities. Conceivably neither side would win, in which case Labor would probably destroy itself...
...weather. Because the weather at Elmira for the last three years has been disappointing, pilots discussed moving their annual meet to Ellenville, N. Y., in the Catskills. After one painfully calm day, when the meet started last fortnight, a warm summer wind began to pour across the green Chemung ridges. Results...
Died. Charles Rohlfs, 83, originator of ''Mission style" furniture, husband and onetime collaborator of the late, famed Mystery Writer Anna Katharine Green (The Leavenworth Case); after a long illness; in Buffalo...
...Horse in Arizona was well calculated to startle Author Paul's readers, who had gathered from his first book (The Pumpkin Coach-TIME, April 8, 1935) that Author Paul had almost as much gusto as Phil Stong but almost as much sweetness & light as Lloyd Douglas (Green Light)-that he promised, in short, to be another J. B. Priestley. In A Horse in Arizona the gusto was still there but the sweetness & light were noticeably lacking. Author Paul had taken a vacation from his Priestleyan task and had written a rollicking, rough-&-tumble satire...