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  • But although many of his songs are now standards of jazz and blues ( "Dusky Stevedore" is one of the few numbers recorded by both Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke), the man himself is barely known.

    A Harlem Hero Gets a Tune-Up Will Friedwald 2010

  • On the books, Greene gets $6,000 a year salary from the union but he drives a new Cadillac automobile and displays other material forms of wealth … I hear the Cleveland Stevedore Co. is beginning to supply the men with their check stubs so that they will know just how much they made.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Cleveland Stevedore has a contract with the union to get all their labor through the union and the rumor on the docks is that Danny Greene, the I.L.A. head here is behind Best Labor Service since the workers are union members.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Cleveland Stevedore has a contract with the union to get all their labor through the union and the rumor on the docks is that Danny Greene, the I.L.A. head here is behind Best Labor Service since the workers are union members.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • On the books, Greene gets $6,000 a year salary from the union but he drives a new Cadillac automobile and displays other material forms of wealth … I hear the Cleveland Stevedore Co. is beginning to supply the men with their check stubs so that they will know just how much they made.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • On the books, Greene gets $6,000 a year salary from the union but he drives a new Cadillac automobile and displays other material forms of wealth … I hear the Cleveland Stevedore Co. is beginning to supply the men with their check stubs so that they will know just how much they made.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • On the books, Greene gets $6,000 a year salary from the union but he drives a new Cadillac automobile and displays other material forms of wealth … I hear the Cleveland Stevedore Co. is beginning to supply the men with their check stubs so that they will know just how much they made.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Cleveland Stevedore has a contract with the union to get all their labor through the union and the rumor on the docks is that Danny Greene, the I.L.A. head here is behind Best Labor Service since the workers are union members.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Cleveland Stevedore has a contract with the union to get all their labor through the union and the rumor on the docks is that Danny Greene, the I.L.A. head here is behind Best Labor Service since the workers are union members.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • One senior lodger, a fine Norman-looking stevedore named Steve, was known as ‘head of the house’, and was arbiter of disputes and unpaid chucker-out.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

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