Word: cooking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Mrs. Katherine Day Little; by Dr. Clarence Cook Little, onetime (1925-29) President of the University of Michigan (TIME, Feb. 4). Charge (uncontested): desertion...
...City of Chicago lies in the County of Cook, which county is a corporate entity of no small importance. It has 4,000 employes; it spends $19,000,000 per annum. Both items have become an embarrassment. Last week the county treasurer announced that there was $125,000 in the treasury and a payroll of $450,000 due on Sept. 20. Probably Cook County will pay with i. o. u.'s. Cause of the difficulty: optimism about tax receipts. The county budget expected the county treasury to perform the following addition...
William B. Ogden, Chicago's first great realtor, was bitterly disappointed when he first arrived, but in the '40s Garlic Creek became the Chicago River. In 1861 Cook County offered $300 for each substitute, to keep the county free of conscription. In 1867 Chicago "had the pick of the best food and nothing remained but to know how to cook it." Bismarck, campaigning against the French, said to General Sherman: "I wish I could see that Chicago...
...they stopped, invited Helen and Joe to come too. Some other children joined the party at the Hoffman field but left early. The Kolesars and Klementoviches stayed on; walking through the tall green corn, picking the ears. They were going to make a fire in the nearby woods and cook some "supper...