Word: coopered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laurence Olivier; seldom a more perfect break-down that the first proposal scene. Greer Garson is the second edition of Myrna Loy,--and the second edition can act. Honorable mention goes to Mary Boland, whose past career has been a rehearsal for the part of Mrs. Bennett, and Melville Cooper, whose depiction of stuffed shirts is rapidly approaching...
...Prime Minister set the Ministry for Home Security to work. Vaguely Sir John Anderson promised ventilation, light, warmth. Department stores opened their basements, and when the big John Lewis & Co. building was hit, 700 trooped safely out to another shelter. To keep people happy, Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper announced plans for portable cinemas against dreary winter evenings. The Arts Theatre Club and ballets moved their performances to the lunch hour. Winston Churchill each day perused particulars of civilian casualties and property damage. He accelerated systems of pension and relief, and marshaled 2,200 doctors and nurses against epidemics...
...week's end Blum and Reynaud were yet to be indicted. Of the others Mandel alone faces a possible sentence of death. He was charged with "treasonable acts" in attempting to cooperate with Great Britain's Duff Cooper and Lord Gort in Morocco in the hope of carrying on a pro-Ally Government after France had officially signed her armistice. The others face possible life imprisonment, with the present Premier, aging Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, holding power of pardon...
...author of Guilty Men ("Cato") shrouds himself, for reasons which nobody seems to know, in a thick British fog. He has been guessed to be Winston Church ill's son Randolph, H. G. Wells, Lord Beaverbrook, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Alfred Duff Cooper. All flatly deny authorship. At any rate Guilty Men is terse, biting, sometimes eloquent, gives every appear ance of careful, responsible judgment. The charges are not new. But the total indictment is terrible. Guilty Men is headed by a cast sheet of villains. Among them: Ramsay MacDonald, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Neville Chamberlain, Sir John Simon...
...childless glue king's will, 19 words written in 1910, left half the U. S. animal glue industry to his widow, Alice E. (Woodward) Wilhelm. Last week, as the sorrow and confusion in the company subsided, she was elected chairman of Peter Cooper Corp.'s board. Chosen president was William J. Gunnell, Buffalo accountant and recently executive vice president. An outdoors man, he has made bird collections for Buffalo's Museum of Natural Sciences. To newsmen looking for a new glue king, Accountant Gunnell offered a silence worthy of his predecessor. The chairman, it was explained...