Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protege of the late great Socialist Victor Berger, was elected Mayor of Milwaukee in 1916 at the age of 35, has held the job ever since. Before that he served six years as City Attorney and before that he worked his way through the University of Wisconsin as a cook, ran a restaurant in Chicago while studying law. Today with a salary of $12,300 he lives in the same cheap little house he occupied when first chosen mayor. When Woodrow Wilson died in 1924 the City Council drew up a resolution of condolence to the widow of a "great...
...night in his home. Next morning he took Wood to San Francisco, registered with him at an apartment hotel as father and son. When Meek went out during the day he bound his victim with wire, taped his mouth, muffled his head in a hood. He made Wood cook their meals, forced him to withdraw $200 from his bank, beat him when he was unable to get more...
...that address a Star newshawk found a crowd standing outside the Coffee Mug restaurant run by one Max Komen who served 5? breakfasts, 15? lunches. In the centre of the crowd stood a 200-lb, jobless cook named Robert Wright. Yelled Cook Wright: "I asked that - - - -* Komen where his Blue Eagle was. He said 'To hell with the Blue Eagle.' Come out here on the street, Komen, and get what's comin...
...securities and $243,351 in real estate, at a total profit of $361,445. To this was added $362,923 from salary, dividends, rents and interest, making a net income of $724,368. TA corporate body which controls all canals, waterworks, sewage and drainage systems in Cook County. Neither fish nor fowl, it is responsible to no other local government, raises its own money by taxation. Authority is vested in nine trustees...
...commercial hotel in the town, where drummers sat and exchanged dirty stories. There are enough minor characters in The Farm to fill a dozen Spoon Rivers-people like Dr. Trefusis, whose grandiose Gothic house was one of the town's sights; Big Mary, an amiable, immensely efficient Negro cook, who refused to exchange her status of "accommodator" for steady employment; Johnny's Uncle Robert, a champion bicycle racer who was killed in a railroad accident when, during a wild thunderstorm, his train plunged into a ravine. Sharpest of all is the picture of Johnny's Grandfather Willingdon...