Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days after Chicago's deficit was announced, the Chicago and Cook County tax bills were issued, having been withheld by Thompson henchmen until after the primary election. When they received their tax bills, citizens all over Chicago exploded with fury, and rushed to the City Hall to protest. While the city's deficit was being acquired, city and county taxes had been jacked up tremendously. Some citizens found their taxes raised 100%, some 200%, some...
...face of rugged grandeur. He read the attestations of Mme. Jacquet's poaching ways with an egg, learned that her pot au feu was delectable and sound. Finally the War Minister decided that in this instance the uncertain quantity or "X" stood for a good & honest cook. Therefore Mme. Jacquet Was appointed, last week, to the regiment at Tourelles until such time as it may be ordered upon active service. Pleased but with a sense of rebuff, Mme. Jacquet said sturdily: "To my mind, God willing, it should be my duty to follow the regiment in war as well...
...Colonel of a regiment stationed at Tourelles had written to the War Ministry that he found it impossible, in that region, to obtain an acceptable male cook. Was there, the Colonel sought to know, any permissible alternative? He enclosed without comment the photograph and the credentials of a woman, Mme. Jacquet...
...London, where he gradually branched out into railroading, and finally became associated with the great international firm of Wagon-Lits. The climax of his career came only a few months ago, when, by the stupendous merger (TIME, Feb. 20) Wagon-Lits absorbed the far flung firm of Thomas Cook...
...following men have been retained from the latest tryout: W. H. Bowden '31, E. L. Belisle '31, H. C. Bulder '31, W. P. Chapman '31, D. I. Cook '31, Samuel Fishman '31, H. C. Friend '31, A. S. Gilmartin '31, and A. L. Kowarsky...