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Word: cooke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish-speaking San Antonio proletariat, she is known as "La Pasionaria de Texas." Since her husband, Homer Brooks, former Communist nominee for Governor of Texas, lives in Houston, their marital life is confined to irregular weekends, but Emma Tenayuca declares pertly: "I love my husband and am a good cook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: La Pasionaria de Texas | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...report maintained that in the course of the excitement "a cook burned his finger and a pot of breakfast mush crashed to the floor." All spectators agreed that Senator Guffey stalked out of the room. When he reappeared after taking a walk along the Susquehanna, he announced that he had reconsidered and would give "wholehearted support" to the ticket after all. But later that day Miner Lewis flatly announced in Washington that, ticket or no ticket, he would support Miner Kennedy for Governor. Did this mean, newshawks asked, that C. I. O.'s half-million Pennsylvania voters would walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Angry Breakfast | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Died. Joseph Bradley David. 74, since 1916 judge of Cook County, Ill., Superior & Criminal Court benches; of heart disease; in Chicago. Bitter foe of Prohibition, easy divorce, the Ku Klux Klan, Judge David once tossed out of court a proposed injunction against fan dances. Said he: "Lots of people in this community would like to put pants on horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1938 | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...life terminated gently that they have organized a National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia. For purposes of their propaganda the Miami incident came in handy, occurring as it did the very day after Dr. Potter first publicly announced his organization and revealed that its trustees included Dr. Clarence Cook Little of the American Society for the Control of Cancer and of the American Birth Control League, and Secretary Leon Fradley Whitney of the American Eugenics Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Potter & Euthanasia | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...Wife Elizabeth McDuffie, longtime Roosevelt cook, was three weeks ago hired by publicity-wise Selznick International Pictures to act in their forthcoming Gone With The Wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Black's White | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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