Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain had no encouragement to "fight on," would the British Fleet be reassuringly moved to New World bases? From London, Alfred Duff Cooper's Ministry of Information issued a reply that was like a polite grinding of teeth...
...Elles, Britain's civil defense chief, exhorted his countrymen: "As sure as God made little apples, we are going to get a lot more bombing. . . . It's the noise that frightens. . . . Don't be frightened. Be angry. It's a good cure." And Alfred Duff Cooper, the propaganda chief, quoted on the radio 42 lines of Poet Thomas Babington Macaulay's Armada, to remind the British how, with bonfires instead of blackout, they reacted to invasion once before...
Gano Dunn, president of J. G. White Engineering Corp. and Cooper Union, recipient of many a scientific award in electrical engineering and holder of 30-odd patents...
Died. George Fitzmaurice, 55, Paris-born pioneer cinema director and writer; of streptococcic infection: in Los Angeles. He first made his name directing Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline, later directed such stars as Greta Garbo (Mata Hari), Gary Cooper (Peter Ibbetson), Ronald Colman (Raffles...
Those who are most vocal want you to whoop it up, not to think it out. I plead for strength before we bait the bear." >At Cooper Union (Manhattan), Case School's President William Elgin Wickenden told graduates: "The decades of illusion and self-indulgence are over. Your generation may never know security of wealth, of employment, perhaps even of life itself." >Owen D. Young (at Syracuse): "I cannot say that the insistent cry of youth today-jobs, not war'-is wrong, but I can say that unless you are prepared for the second you may never have...