Word: cole
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Someone asked whether the Coop would rather hire college men. "Yes," said Mr. Cole, "a man going to Harvard or Radcliffe is as good as and probably better than the run-of-the-streets...
...their rights of suffrage, but it had the effect of infusing them, at an early stage, with a "sense of belonging." Next on the program was Mr. Ford in an enthusiastic but factual soliloquy entitled "The Treasurer's Report." Mr. Ford prefaced his remarks with a comment that Mr. Cole has never yet missed an annual meeting, which was the cause of some laughter among the five oldish directors...
...meeting was then opened to questions from the floor. The first query was, what percentage of Coop purchases are made by members? "Seventy-two to seventy-eight percent," answered Mr. Cole, and then, as an obiter dictum, divulged what he called "the Great Mystery of the Harvard Cooperative Society:" why some people pay a dollar to join and then buy only five cents of goods...
...high point of the afternoon came when one student demanded to know whether the Coop hired negroes. Mr. Cole became strong-voiced and frenzied. "There is no discrimination in the Harvard Cooperative Society." he proclaimed dramatically. "There won't be any! We've had negroes, we've had Chinese, we've had Indians, we've had Japs, but"--as an afterthought--"we still haven't had Malays." The student was satisfied by the answer, and the rest of the meeting came as an anti-climax...
...meeting Mr. Cole sounded like Dunninger solving the love life of the man in the third row. The conclave ended on a friendly note as the tired chairman invited the students to come to his office and hear some "funny stories about comparative prices...