Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waiting for their official appointment, held a public hearing and examined every piece of lumber, knotty or warped, new or shopworn, which was hopefully offered as platform material by leaders of blocs and factions, economists, radicals, cranks. Heard by the committee were A. F. of L.'s William Green, American Farm Bureau Federation's Edward A. O'Neal, the National Grange's Louis J. Taber, Newspaper Guild's Heywood Broun, Hobo Fellowship's Ralph E. Dalton, many another. When the perfunctory examination of unordered lumber was over, the drafting committee settled down in room...
Most leaders who once fought John Lewis have since joined him. A. F. of L.'s President William Green, dedicated by his office to the craft tradition, has made himself look silly by continuing to order Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization to disband under pain of excommunication. No one knows better than "Bill" Green that it takes two-thirds of a Federation convention to banish member unions, that the Committee for Industrial Organization represents more than a third of the entire A. F. of L. membership. Best current guess is that William Green will make his peace with...
Adept at speaking French, behaving with French politeness and outdoing even French diplomacy when it comes to haggling around a green table are the statesmen of Turkey, first of countries downed in the War to arise under a Dictator. Last week with exquisite politeness Dictator President El Ghazi ("The Victorious One") Kamâl Atatürk ("Father of the Turks'') called at Montreux, Switzerland a conference at which the Great Powers could agree to his tearing up the Treaty of Lausanne, under which Turkey is forbidden to fortify the Dardanelles. This the Great Powers were delighted...
...which absorbs heat rather than reflecting it. Last week young Marshal Graziani, energetic new Viceroy of Ethiopia, already had native moppets of tenderest age drilling as a pickaninny Balilla (see cut). From Rome arrived brand-new khaki uniforms for Ethiopian "Sons of the Wolf" to be worn with fetching green scarfs...
...graduate nurses, assembled last week in Los Angeles for concurrent conventions of three national nurses' associations, was to be blessed by a Protestant Episcopal bishop in the Hollywood Bowl. They next heard a "vested chorus" of Los Angeles nurses, who had practiced for months, gently sing Green Cathedral. Cinemactress Kay Francis who plays Florence Nightingale, nurses' special saint, in The White Angel (see p. 49), was put on exhibition, along with her director of this latest Warner Bros, cinematic biography. Handsome, informed Susan Catherine Francis of Philadelphia, president of the American Nurses' Association, talked about...