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William Green   /wˈɪljəm grin/   Listen
William Green

noun
1.
United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952).  Synonym: Green.






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"William green" Quotes from Famous Books



... of February, 1860, there was held a deliberative meeting at the house of James Johnson, Rev. James Cusick acting as moderator. There were present, William Green, of Grand River; James Johnson, Isaac N. Jack, Isaac Patterson, ...
— Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians • Elias Johnson

... William Gratton Ebenezer Graub Dingley Gray Franes Gray Joseph Gray (2) James Gray Samuel Gray Simeon Gray Simon Gray William Gray Isaac Greeman Allen Green Elijah Green (2) Elisha Green Henry Green John Green (9) Joseph Green (2) Robert Green Rufus Green William Green (3) Green Greenbury Enoch Greencafe James Greene (3) John Greene (4) Samuel Greene John Greenes Richard Greenfield Abner Greenleaf John Greenoth William Greenville Barton Greenville Malum Greenwell Robert Greenwold Jacob Greenwood David Gregory ...
— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge

... The speaker was Private William Green, also known as "Long" Green, from his former habit of carrying large sums of ready ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines - or, Following the Flag against the Moros • H. Irving Hancock

... surveyor. James Rutledge was the keeper of the Rutledge tavern and the father of Ann Rutledge; Hugh Armstrong was the head of the numerous Armstrong family; "Uncle Jimmy" White lived on a farm five miles from New Salem, and died about thirty years ago in the eightieth year of his age; William Green (spelled by the later members of the family with a final "e") was the father of William G. Greene, Lincoln's associate in Offutt's store; and as to Bowling Green, more is said elsewhere. In the following three or four years, very few elections were held at which ...
— McClure's Magazine, January, 1896, Vol. VI. No. 2 • Various

... memory. When the Black Hawk War broke out and the governor called out volunteers, Sangamon County straightway responded and raised a company of rangers. This Kirkpatrick wished and strove to be elected captain, but Lincoln recited his grievance to the men, and said to his friend William Green (or Greene): ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams



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