Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never attempted it. He was raised in Dubuque, went to University of Illinois where he studied pharmacy. For five years he owned and ran a drugstore in Chicago. This he found less to his liking than he had expected and his next experience was the general managership of Siegel, Cooper & Co., Manhattan department store. In 1914 he returned to Chicago, formed Consumers Co. (coal, ice, building materials). Later Consumers bought Hydrox Ice Cream Co. In 1917 Thomas McInnerney bought Hydrox away from Consumers and planned a dairy products combination on a scale that would have pleased even Paul Bunyan.* Contrary...
Colonial--"He", Alfred Savoir's latest with "Claude Rains, Tom Powers, and Violet Kemble-Cooper of "Applecart" fame...
...Burly, brusque and boisterous, like a bluff sailor, always bringing a breeze of quarrel with him," Cooper had warm friends: one of them was his wife. After 30 years of marriage he wrote to her: "I do not think I am a bad father, and yet I love my wife a little better than any child I have, good as all mine are. Can this be because the wife is so good, or because I am a fool?" He loved to play chess with her, Pepyshly noted in his diary who won. He was a good sport. Once he sent...
...Cooper moved to Westchester County so :hat his wife could be near her family. At 30 he was a successful trader in whale oil and cotton. One day, reading aloud to his wife, he flung aside the book in disgust, said he could do better himself. What he began as a joke she persuaded him to finish; to his surprise his first novel (Precaution) was taken seriously. Almost before he knew it Cooper was a literary man. Soon he was hailed (though he later resented it) as the Walter Scott of the U. S. Though no gentleman signed his name...
When he wanted to take his family abroad, he was given the agreeable post of Consul at Lyons, with no duties, some privileges. The Coopers stayed abroad seven years, got back to the U. S. to find times had moved. Cooper became didactic, not to say cantankerous. "His view of the world . . . had ceased to be genial. He disliked many things, and disliked them more each year-reviewers, Yankees, newspapers, kings. Englishmen, mobs, national timidity and national complacency. And there steadily grew upon him a taste for laying down the law." Editors made libelous fun of him; he sued...