Word: cooke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years ago when Illinois' Democratic Governor Henry Horner advanced his feud with Chicago's Democratic Mayor Edward J. Kelly by a State law requiring the permanent registration of voters, many and loud were reformers' predictions of what the Chicago voting lists would reveal. Last week the Cook County Board of Election Commissioners, which has been investigating the lists for a year, made one highly interesting revelation: that 150,000 of the county's 2,000,000 enrolled voters are not U. S. citizens...
...parents had been naturalized; 2) those who were over 21 when their parents received their final papers; 3) women who married noncitizens before Sept. 22, 1922, and thus were not automatically naturalized when their husbands were; 4) veterans who thought War service made them citizens. But, innocent or not, Cook County's 150,000 assistant Americans in thus being deprived of their legal status, were liable to lose other prerogatives besides their votes, including passports for travel abroad, old-age, blind and mothers' pensions, WPA jobs...
...Philadelphia's General Hospital and Chicago's Cook County Hospital maintain free blood banks, replenished by relatives and friends of patients who received transfusions. Manhattan's Bellevue and Brooklyn's Kings County hospitals start similar free banks next week...
Started in 1926 as a novelty for Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden, the Rangers, under Manager Patrick, were developed into an effective machine of famed players including Frank Boucher, Bill & Bun Cook, Murray Murdoch, Ching Johnson, who won the Stanley Cup twice...
Last week, in testimony before the House Naval Affairs Committee Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, Chief of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, conceded, as had Chief of Naval Operations William Leahy two weeks before, that planes could conceivably destroy a battleship. But he insisted that this outcome of an air v. sea battle was by no means a foregone conclusion. The Navy's air chief quoted the British Imperial Defense Committee's retort to the theory that battleships are outmoded-if the theory proves well founded, a government that builds no battleships will save money; if ill founded...