Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the University of Michigan's law school became, in the opinion of its officials, "the wealthiest the world has ever known." The will of William Wilson Cook -Michigan Law graduate (1882), onetime general counsel for Postal Telegraph & Cable Co.-who died at Rye, N. Y., fortnight ago, had endowed the institution with over...
...Believing as I do," wrote Donor Cook, "that American institutions are of more consequence than the wealth or power of the country, and believing that the preservation and development of these institutions have been, are, and will continue to be under the leadership of the legal profession, and believing also that the future of America depends largely upon that profession; and believing that the character of the law schools determines the character of the legal profession, I wish to aid in enlarging the scale and improving the standards of the law schools by aiding the one from which...
...currently regarded by U. S. dealers as "most fashionable" are all terriers: Scottish, Cairn, Sealyham, wire-haired fox. Most of the best-bred Scotties in the U. S. last fortnight foregathered on a terrace of Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Button's Long Island estate and permitted Dr. Clarence Cook Little, onetime president of the University of Michigan, now managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, to compare their little black perfections in the Specialty Show of the Scottish Terrier Club, No. 1 event of the U. S. Scotty season. While the owners sipped...
...custom requires, the first fish caught in the Bangor, Me. salmon pools?this year an 11-lb. grilse?was sent to the White House for presentation to the President. Somehow it got into the kitchen where a zealous chef hacked off its head and tail, was about to cook it for the President's dinner, when at the White House arrived Maine's Congressman Donald Francis Snow. Seizing the fish, Mr. Snow hastily stitched its head back on with a needle and thread, wrapped its tailless end up in a piece of paper, hurried out to the White House posing...
...world know where they are, what they are doing. But the Poles were not "discovered" from the air, and the news came back no faster than the dogs and men who pulled the sledges. In 1909 Commander Robert Edwin Peary reached the North Pole by dogsled, though Frederick Albert Cook (TIME, March 31) claimed he had anticipated him; in 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott got to the South Pole only to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it by a few weeks. Scott's party all died of cold and exhaustion on their way back...