Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfunctory an affair as the Senate caucus. The progressive or insurgent group had held a conference previously under its leader, John M. Nelson of Wisconsin. Three men were nominated to be Republican candidate for Speaker: Frederic Gillett of Massachusetts, the candidate of the regulars; Henry A. Cooper of Wisconsin, the insurgent candidate; and Martin B. Madden of Illinois, the candidate of his admirers and a few insurgents. With eleven absentees, the vote...
...accordance with the provisions of the Senior class constitution, the election of the Senior class officers, with the exception of the secretary and the class committees, will be held in Sever Hall on Wednesday, December 12, it was learned last night from C. B. Cooper '24, chairman of the recently appointed nominating committee...
...Cooper, chairman...
...nomination will be purely a matter of form, since the Democrats have no desire to elect him; it is the custom for the minority party to nominate for Speaker, the man whom later becomes its floor leader. The insurgents planned to name to oppose Mr. Gillett, Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin, a Representative whose service began at the same time as Mr. Gillett's. His nomination will probably be a matter of tactics. The insurgents by mustering as few as eight votes for Mr. Cooper can effectively block the election of a Speaker...
...list of virtues which he trotted inside like a grey nag in a paddock". He addresses the shade of Crevecoeur with this wagging finger: "Hector St. John, you have lied to me. You lied even more scurrilously to yourself. Hector St. John, you are an emotional liar". Fenimore Cooper felt himself superior to the bourgoise but would not admit it, and therefore lied. "The blue-eyed darling Nathaniel (Hawthorne) knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise". And so the same through Dana, Melville and Whitman. "Always the same. The deliberate consciousness...