Word: cooperative
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victor Fleming, who directed her in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, calls her Angel. Sam Wood calls her "a fine wholesome girl," and gracefully credits her and Cooper with the excellent morale of the whole outfit during difficulties on The Bell's location. Deafening Gregory Ratoff shouts: "Haffing diracted Meese Boergmann in her foerst two Amerrican peetures, I vould say puzzitiffly I hope I do de same tvanty-two timeps more. She is sansahtional...
Graham's published Hawthorne's stories and Cooper's biographies of naval heroes. Thousands upon thousands of Americans were reading poetry and memorizing the great lines that have been treasured ever since, from Poe's magical Helen, thy beauty is to me ... to Lowell's What is so rare as a day in June? They were reading poetry about themselves, scenes they knew and friends they remembered, a gentle, sunlit, innocent poetry of farms, snowdrifts, schoolhouses, pilgrims, heroes, ships and ghosts...
...commands a widespread network of communications, A.P. has been able to trumpet its side of the anti-trust suit up & down the land. The war of nerves has been relentless. Hundreds of papers, either A.P. members or sympathetic, have plumped editorially for A.P. A.P.'s General Manager Kent Cooper last fall published a book (Barriers Down) in which he pictured A.P. as a ceaseless, unselfish fighter against monopoly. A.P. has itself published two large volumes containing hundreds of pro-A.P. editorials from A.P. papers...
Granite-faced old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, had at last been pushed from his stubborn stand against any tax "forgiveness." Majority Leader John W. McCormack, responding to Ad ministration pressure, and Tennessee's shrewd Jere Cooper, the committee's best tax brain, did the pulling and hauling. Old Muley now came out for cancellation of about half of 1942 taxes; the Demo cratic majority of his committee gave his bill a favorable report...
...that centered around Helene de Portes, Premier Reynaud's mistress, whom Sheean believes to have been the shrewish organizer of defeat. In Britain, Sheean walked past the workmen stringing barbed vire around the Houses of Parliament. "So it's come to this, has it?" said Lady Diana Cooper, "in that curiously husky voice;" Inside Parliament Sheean heard history made by "a colorless voice." It was Clement Attlee reading the one-sentence law which declared that for the duration all persons and property were at the disposal of the state. Said H. G. Wells "rather happily" at lunch next...