Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World's Fair in New York, 34 staff members of the Rumanian Restaurant left for their country's colors, and without Neagu, Rumania's most famous chef (now to be an Army cook), the restaurant closed...
...Illinois Commerce Commission: dapper, long-faced Herman Emmons Moore, 46, one of the few Negro lawyers in Chicago with offices in the Loop district. Judge-Designate Moore, born in Jackson, Miss., is a Howard and Boston University law school graduate. Twice he has been president of the Cook County Bar Association (colored...
...passed it, sending the emaciated Rabbit to the House. The bill, once totaling $3,860,000,000, now stood at $1,615,000,000. California's bulky oldtimer, Hiram Johnson, took the floor to characterize the New Deal's spending philosophy as that of the cow-camp cook: "Come and get it! Come...
When rich, wanderlusty His Highness the Maharaja of Tripura, Sir Bir Bikram Kishore Deb decided to see the world, he instructed Thos. Cook & Son's sniffy "Princes' Department" to assign him its No. 1 courier, big, beefy, 60-year-old Frederick Norbert Wagner. Last June the Maharaja, his entourage of eight, and 58 pieces of luggage arrived in Marseille, France. There, on his toes as usual, Courier Wagner firmly took command...
...Swiss chemist, Frederick Norbert Wagner contracted travelers' itch "while my shirtwaist and trousers were still one piece." At 17 he shipped to the U. S. After clerking for a shipping line, he landed a job in Cook's London office. The World War found him skittering about as a British Intelligencer, an experience which brought him many a fruitful contact ("I know all the little back doors...