Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt Hotel were marooned without food or water. In justice to the hotel management, I believe this should be corrected. As one of the 575 guests during the flood I know that, working under great difficulties, the hotel served meals regularly, plenty of good plain food. To cook it they were obliged to break up furniture and build fires on top of their ranges. I was in the hotel from Tuesday night until Thursday morning when I was able to leave in a motor boat after the flood had begun to subside. Water appeared to be plentiful at all times...
...Light on Cook...
Sirs: ... I may be able to throw some light on Dr. Frederick A. Cook's efforts to prove that his tour to the North Pole was on the up and up [TIME, March 30]. . . . In 1926 I was a newshawk on the Fort Worth Record-Telegram when Roald Amundsen, ace of the cold weather explorers, came to that city to deliver a lecture. Dr. Cook at that time was awaiting the outcome of a federal penitentiary appeal in the Tarrant County jail in Fort Worth. Amundsen was asked: "Do you believe Dr. Cook reached the North Pole?" The explorer...
Sirs: ... It seems but fair that you do a bit more investigating into what Dr. Frederick A. Cook has done and what he has not done. I heard Dr. Cook lecture, very, very modest in his claims, immediately after he had returned through the angry-schoolboy newspaper and telegraphic firespittings of Peary. ... If Dr. Cook had not found the North Pole, he thought so and has shown as much, if not more, proof that he did reach it than ever did Peary. The very fact that he has been handed the hot end of a poker ever since should induce...
...Washington's Adams Building stenographers of the Democratic National Committee were annoyed by pungent cooking odors wafted through the transom of General Hugh Samuel Johnson's office next door. When their complaints went unheeded, they bided their time, found the door open one day, spied the General's loyal Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson midway between icebox and stove with a bowl of onions. Questioned, Secretary "Robbie" admitted she often cooked steak for the General's lunch, but snorted: "I never cook onions because they don't agree with...