Word: cooperatives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only two Representatives now in the House have served there longer: Cooper of Wisconsin (31 years) and Butler of Tennsylvania (29 years). Able, active Burton of Ohio, aged 75, has served only 21 years in addition to his six years' interlude in the Senate...
...Secretary of State Kellogg speak on foreign relations, and to elect as officers; Frank B. Noyes (Washington Star), president; Robert R. McCormick (Chicago Tribune), first vice president; J. N. Heiskell (Little Rock, Ark., Gazette), second vice president. They reelected: Melville E. Stone (a former general manager) secretary, and Kent Cooper, able Hoosier, general manager...
...national court tennis championship from Charles E. Sand. He became the sporting sensation of the decade. He went abroad to get a match with Eustace H. Mills, champion of England, who did not want to play him at all, for he had heard the laconic comment of Major Cooper Key that "America has put the brains of a veteran into a youth of 17." Public sentiment forced Mills into the match and he won. Jay Gould returned to the U. S., entered Columbia, was elected captain of the freshman track team, led his class to triumph over the sophomores...
...reading machine. In its reduced shape, it was a 13-page pamphlet, 3½ inches wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk for the Fiskoscope? No bigger than an ordinary novel. The Oxford Dictionary? A trifling brochure. The works of Balzac, of James Fenimore Cooper, of Thackeray, Scott, James Joyce? Slender dockets. Dr. Eliot's five-foot shelf will melt to the thickness of a few packs of cards and those advertisement-readers who seek culture for ten minutes a day can carry whole libraries in their waistcoat pockets...
...accomplished Emily Stevens. Just now it does not seem so brisk. There is an air about it of dust disturbed. People do not like so many lumps of coincidence in their play these days. There are complications about smuggling and infidelity, and some excellent acting. Violet Kemble Cooper and Morgan Farley have the leads...