Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wide was the wonder throughout the land last week as Chicago, the Second City, floundered deeper into its spectacular mire of public debt. Rarely before has a full-grown municipality made such a financial exhibition of itself. There was no money in the City Treasury, none in Cook County Treasury, none in the School Board Treasury. The 23 park boards were penniless, the largest, South Park, abandoning its preparations for the Centennial Fair until it could sell a bond issue. The credit of city and county agencies was practically exhausted...
...School Board owed $500,000 for coal; dealers were disinclined to deliver more. Some 13,000 teachers had not been paid this year, some longer. Cook County owed 3,862 employes $1,133,000 in back pay, in addition to a debt of $7,035,000 to provision merchants supplying food to its institutions. The City Government owed 18,000 employes $4,160,000. Altogether these municipal units were $11,000,000 in debt to 40,000 workers, none of whom had been paid since...
Frankfurter and Greene both attended the Harvard Law School, Frankfurter receiving the degree of LL.B. in 1906 and Greene in 1925. Greene is now with the firm of Cook. Nathan, and Lehman of New York City...
Centre of interest was the Barber, who, swathed in a large white jacket borrowed from the cook and carrying a sanguine daubed wooden razor, was none other than Edward Windsor. No newcomer to the Equator is H.R.H. He first crossed the Line in 1920, crossed again last year on his interrupted African hunting trip which he is now completing, and was once incautious enough to allow himself to be festively photographed in a blonde wig, a most effeminate dressing gown, a palpably false bust...
...Because of adjustments demanded by taxpayers, no real estate taxes have been paid in Cook County for 20 months...