Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Very sincerely yours, "W. Green "President, American Federation of Labor...
...believe," cried this Texan, "the membership of this House is entitled to know where Mr. Green and his committee gets authority to express themselves as representing the A. F. of L. against the Frazier-Lemke bill...
...have voted for labor consistently for years," chimed in Representative John Rankin of Mississippi, "but I, for one, re-sent the impudence of this man Green in sending a letter to Congress to tell us how to vote on farm legislation...
...debate, I am reminded of what he said, not about this bill but about all bills. He said: 'I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.' That is the position I take about Mr. Green and I happen to agree with what he said...
...this kind of entertaining as a livelihood. Once she tried to operate without bookers, found she could get no girls. Her girls, she said, charged whatever a man would pay, usually $2 to $4. She kept a running total of each one's earnings by punching neat green cards. "If a customer paid $2," she explained, "I'd punch two. If the next one paid $3, I punched five. If the next one paid $4, I punched nine." A card offered as evidence showed that one of her girls had collected $46 between...