Word: coker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first part of this prediction had now come true. Following the death of his son-in-law, David R. Coker, whose large affairs in South Carolina needed overseeing, kindly, seam-faced Daniel Calhoun ("Uncle Dan") Roper's resignation was at last announced. Instantly a Big Business chorus arose led by President George H. Davis of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, seeking to head off the Hopkins appointment. Franklin Roosevelt, like his most trusted friend, laughed away questions about it and Christmas continued to come, with two Cabinet stockings instead of one for the White House Santa Claus...
Married. Lois Walters, daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Interior Theodore Augustus Walters; and Robert Coker, stepson of the daughter of Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper; in Washington...
...stress on variously shaped solid bodies with the aid of polarized light and sensitive cameras. The distribution of stress and strain exerted on a notched object, for example, can be detected by bands of colored light which are recorded on the photographic plate in the camera. The English scientist, Coker, developed the process early in the last decade, but its practical engineering value is just beginning to be realized...
...Birkenhead, Herbert T. Coker, back in England from the U. S. for the first time in 43 years, was summoned to court. In 1888 he had been ordered to pay $1 a week to a Mrs. Elizabeth Dempsey for support of her child. He had never paid it, was $260 in arrears (the child had died aged five). Said Herbert T. Coker: "This is quite a surprise to me." Boomed Magistrate T. Rees: "The law has a very good memory...