Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young men sat down to telephones one morning last week in the office of County Treasurer Horace G. Lindheimer in Chicago, began to dial. Their assignment was to buzz every one of 4,000 delinquent personal property taxpayers, who owed Cook County $1,000 or more. Results at day's end: 171 responses, 129 promises, seven complaints that the taxes were too high, one part payment which amounted to less than the day's telephone bill ($25). Meantime, in another part of Treasurer Lindheimer's office, another crew of assistants was busy -without any lack of success...
...Amendment with teeth in it, set up a three-man National Mediation Board. Chairman since then has been little, alert, Estonian-born Dr. William Morris Leiserson, onetime professor of economics at Antioch College and a lifelong expert on arbitration. His present fellow members are both 200-pounders: George Cook, who began his career as a railroad timekeeper and has worked for every railroad mediation body since 1920, and Otto Sternoff Beyer, who assisted Joseph Eastman when he was Transportation Coordinator. The National Mediation Board's record has been good-out of 407 cases in fiscal 1936-37, 259 were...
...more difficult because both sides are obstinately entrenched, management insisting that the roads cannot continue in business without reducing wage costs, labor relying on the Administration's oft-reiterated stand that cutting wages is against the best interests of the U. S. Messrs. Leiserson, Beyer and Cook last week hoped to settle the wrangle, but most observers guessed that the case would progress to the final stage provided by the Railway Labor Act-either appointment of an emergency investigating board by the President or arbitration by a group jointly appointed by the opposing sides...
...actual construction of the Central Pacific, boasted that he found fault with everything and that everybody was afraid of him. But on payday he rode through the construction crews with 150 lb. of gold and silver, paid workmen himself. Because he admired the endurance of his Chinese cook, he favored Chinese crews over his partners' objections. When the Central Pacific was stopped by wild mountain country (during 1866 only 28 miles of track were laid), the rival Union Pacific was pushing rapidly across level plains, making fortunes for its owners. The partners were frantic but Crocker only added more...
...cinema families as the Hardys and Twentieth Century-Fox's Joneses are well on their way to developing for modern cinemaddicts the kind of cumulative box office appeal once exercised by old time serials. Good shot: Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) settling a quarrel between his daughter and the cook, who joins the menage halfway through the picture in a manner calculated not to offend cinemaddicts who cannot afford such luxuries...