Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish lawyer in New York, a notorious criminal in Atlanta Penitentiary, a college professor in Reading, Pa., a fugitive from Federal justice, an alderman vacationing in Europe and 19 other assorted Chicagoans all had common cause for worry last week. It was a big warm blanket indictment by a Cook County grand jury charging them one & all with being trade racketeers. Behind the indictment lay Chicago's years of industrial bombings, murders and terrorism, and twelve weeks of secret investigation by the grand jury before whom appeared 588 frightened witnesses. A strapping, six-foot Irishman elected State...
...Bill" Thompson's Robert Crowe as State's Attorney. He talked loudly about law & order but failed dismally to check industrial violence. Last November Democrat Thomas Courtney, a young two-fisted "reformer," beat State's Attorney Swanson for his job by a thumping majority. The Cook County Democratic machine was not overjoyed at its own man's victory; it feared he would "raise hell with the status quo." That was precisely what...
...comers as much as they wanted and as often. He had three big houses to shelter his following, some of them whites. No one knew precisely where the $30,000 yearly overhead came from except Father Divine, who explained that it came from Divine Providence. But many a Manhattan cook had sent him small contributions, and from Negroes for whom he found work a tithe was forthcoming. He was run out of Sayville last year, fined $500 and sentenced to a year in jail for maintaining a nuisance (TIME, June...
...principal actors help make it inoffensive comedy drama until the last reel. This, which has almost nothing to do with the rest of the plot, concerns a strange dinner party at the Fletchers. One by one the guests are called away by drunkenness or domestic emergencies. The cook fights with the butler. The guest of honor sits down alone with his hostess. When it seems that nothing more can happen unless Joan Fletcher cuts herself with a butter knife, her husband strolls into the dining room and hands her a carton of gardenias...
Died. William Wallace Cook, 66, prolific fictionist, called "the man who deforested Canada" because of the avalanche of stories he fed into the pulp-magazine mill; after long illness; in Marshall, Mich. In 1916 as "Burt L. Standish" he took over the famed Frank Merriwell series created years before by William Gilbert Patten, kept it going a few years more. In 1927 he published "Plotto," an inexhaustible mine of skeleton plots for authors-in-a-hurry...