Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russell, North Carolina's Bailey, South Carolina's James Byrnes, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, Louisiana's Ellender, and Pat Harrison?began their operations they had one stroke of luck. Illinois' porky, cautious William Dieterich had persuaded the Judiciary Committee to tack on an amendment exempting counties (i. e., Illinois' Cook) from liabilities arising from gang murders and labor violence. This gave Kenneth McKellar an opportunity to bait Illinois'. Ham Lewis into a voluble debate on Chicago jurisprudence. North Carolina's Robert Reynolds helped out by discussing Europe, the Orient, the British Isles, South America, Africa, the Malay States...
...brick house that has an electric dishwashing machine, but also no radio, no telephone. When Miriam Beard and Alfred Vagts were married, Vagts, who had been a German officer during the War, was a professor in Berlin, where they lived until shortly before Hitler came into power. A good cook who does her own housework, Miriam Beard spent eight years accumulating the amazing mass of facts for A History of the Business Man, had to be goaded into finishing the book by her energetic mother, almost had a nervous breakdown before she completed it. The result is a volume that...
...interviewed briefly, many an anecdote: of a brief but bloody revolution in Quito where the scattered human remains were collected by garbage trucks hurriedly daubed with Red Crosses; of an escaped convict from Devil's Island who murdered his peg-legged fellow fugitive, used the wooden leg to cook him with...
...reach subscribers and newsstands four weeks hence, makes up. Between fixed points-the front page, the editorial page and the Campbell's Soup ad-the nation's favorite magazine reading matter, written and bought from a year to a week before,* is arranged. A good cook needs no recipe and the Post's editors follow a make-up routine which is unstated. It is, however, inflexible within its limits: four articles, four or five fiction-pieces, editorial, Post Scripts, Keeping Posted (writers' who's who). The chief rule in selecting the stories and articles...
...snowy coast-range mountains near the headwaters of the chilly Siletz River, 90 miles southwest of Portland, Ore., is the Cobbs & Mitchell sawmill. There Dorothy Anne, 10-year-old daughter of Cook House & Dormitory Supervisor Henry Hobson, recently launched a one-sheet, the mimeographed Valsetz Star, which carries community intelligence to the families of 200 burly mill hands and loggers. Many a newspaper owner might wish himself able to resolve his publishing worries as simply and succinctly as did Publisher Dorothy Anne in the Star's latest issue. She wrote: "SPECIAL EDITOR'S NOTE: this...