Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Flavor. In Dumont, N.J., Mrs. Thomas Dolan decided to cook Sunday dinner at home, roasted not only the beef but also $600 her husband had stored in the oven...
...first depressing hours after election, Boss Jake Arvey was positive. "This is the last campaign I'm going to manage in Cook County," he said. "I haven't been able to eat for three days...
...Democratic political machine. Arvey had defaced the Illinois ticket with Police Captain Daniel A. ("Tubbo") Gilbert, a veteran cop with a big bankroll and a psychological block against arresting important gangsters. Gilbert was a major factor in the defeat of Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas; he also cost the Cook County Democrats some important offices...
...cooperative house, however, the 30 occupants do everything but cook. Five officers allot the jobs to the other 25, who serve in the dining room, clean the house, and even help with the repairs and painting. Some fraternities, too, are run on a cooperative basic...
Democrats had thought that, more or less unnoticed in the general hustle, they could elect "Tubbo" Gilbert sheriff of Cook County. That was before Tubbo's Republican rival, one John E. Babb, got busy and Chicago newspapers took a scandalized second look at the amazing career of 200-lb. Policeman Tubbo...