Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed British Miner-Communist leader A. J. ("Emperor") Cook (TIME, May 10, 1926) promptly assembled "a mass meeting of protest," declared: "The Government's refusal to grant these passports to harmless, innocent children proves that it is preparing for war against Soviet Russia...
...acquitted. In the same year, she, as Mrs. Woodhull, was nominated as a candidate for the presidency of the U. S. by the Equal Rights Party, was defeated. Shortly after the two sisters removed to England where Victoria became Mrs. John Biddulph Martin; Tennessee, the wife of Sir Francis Cook. In 1914 Mrs. Martin helped to organize the Women's Aerial League of England, offered $5,000 and a trophy for the first aviator to make a transatlantic flight. Tennessee Claflin Cook died...
...Well, I can cook eggs " said the headmaster of a newborn preparatory school. He was addressing his students The Negro servants had just walked out because of the poverty of the school. That was in 1906 when the Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill took 18 boys and two faculty members to a farmhouse in the Berkshire Hills of Connecticut and founded Kent School. The beds-floors-eggs incident was the beginning of a student-supervised, student-broom-wielding system which runs the school to this day. Students regulate discipline, keep order in study hall, wait on tables, manage the athletic teams...
...both the swearing-in and the scything were last week termed methods of self-exploitation. Elbowing through a roomful of Tammany leaders at the 14th St. Wigwam, Nelson P. Cook, a little, old, white-haired neighbor of Calvin Coolidge during the President's Vermont days, told Tarn-many Leader George W. Olvany that he was against the President, wished to organize a Smith boom. He said that the famed kerosene lamp was obsolete, had been purchased at wholesale in 1867. He asked why President Coolidge scythed hay when he might well have used a mowing machine. Terming himself an "agricultural...
Last week in Manhattan, wispy-haired kitchen sluts, broad-hipped Irish cooks, trim, self-conscious society matrons went to school. Housekeeping, a group of capable society women had decided, ought to be a profession, needs trained executives and employes. So, led by Mrs. Richard Boardman, Mrs. Henry F. Patterson, they founded Scientific Housekeeping, Inc., a co-operative organization that teaches housekeepers how to treat their servants, servants how to be efficient and capable' workers. Each cook, maid, laundress, is instructed until she is ready for a job, is then placed by the Corporation in a position where she is guaranteed...