Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even workhouse inmates were fighting not only flood but fire on a two-mile front. By vote of the city council. City Manager C. A. Dykstra was given dictatorial powers to deal with the situation as he thought best. Property damage: $5,000,000. Indiana. Evansville, Funnyman Joe Cook's hometown, was made base of the Coast Guard's relief forces. While 40 horses were rescued from the Dade Park race track, amphibians roared in from the Atlantic coast and radio-equipped surf boats arrived from the Chicago station. Indianapolis diked itself in after a body was seen...
...Last week the Chicago Bar Association's Board of Managers on Judicial Selection brought to Bar headquarters atop the Burnham Building the Chicago Plan to free the courts of political domination. To put the proposals into operation would require an amendment to the State Constitution. Affected would be Cook County's three inferior courts, which would be changed thus: Each sitting judge would complete his elective term. At the next election, put on the ballot without political affiliation or opposition, he would be voted on. A majority of votes against any one judge would eliminate him, otherwise...
Gustavus Wynne Cook of Philadelphia furnishes a shining example of what a rich businessman can do with his hobbies. On his estate in the Philadelphia suburbs he has the world's most elaborate private astronomical observatory. His 28½-in. telescope, installed in 1932, is the most powerful possessed by an amateur. He has been privileged to call himself "Dr." Cook since last June when the University of Pennsylvania made him Doctor of Science. Gustavus Wynne Cook is president of South Chester Tube Co. and of South Chester Terminal & Warehousing Co., director of a national bank, two trust companies...
...United Mine Workers of America could "come into a town and take possession of it," and "close down any steel or automobile plant in the country." Humorist Robert Benchley was represented with a wry piece on international conferences, the New York World-Telegram's Radio Editor Alton Cook sarcastically "exposed" Major Bowes and his Amateur Hour. Fred Cooper, star draughtsman of the late Life, did one of his oldtime two-page spreads on "Winter...
Discernible also are the cook, two radio operators and the chief engineer, the rest of the crew remaining in the background as heroic but anonymous supernumeraries...