Word: glenwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GLENWOOD J. SHERRARD President Parker House Boston, Mass...
...operative Editors Sirs: In TIME (Aug. 3) one F. B. Griffith of Alexandria, Minn., in writing upon a co-operative meeting at Glenwood, Minn., says in part...
...convention and celebration at Glenwood, Minn. . . . was a huge success. There were about 3,000 people in attendance. Had the country press in Minnesota given this any publicity there would have been fully 10,000 people there for this gathering. Ninety percent of the country editors in Minnesota are living back in 1880 (mentally) and should be plowed under along with Secretary Wallace's surplus cotton...
...shores of Minnesota's Lake Minnewaska is a little town called Glenwood, which is 26 miles west of Sauk Center, birthplace of Sinclair Lewis. Glenwood is also near Cottonwood, birthplace of the first U. S. oil & gas cooperative. Because Cottonwood could not accommodate a convention which observed the 15th anniversary of the founding of its filling station, because Minnesota is the most co-operative State in the Union and because International Co-Operative Day falls on the first Saturday in July, Glenwood played host last week to nearly all the leading cooperators...
...best hotel, for almost by definition cooperators are not affluent. Since Co-operation is a Cause as well as a system of economics, the delegates did not go in for the usual convention revelry of profit-making businessmen. They swam with their ladies in Lake Minnewaska. They celebrated at Glenwood Park. They inspected the only co-operative in Glenwood, a filling station. They stayed away from the slot-machines in the hotel bar, one cooperator crisply observing: "Slot-machines are distinctly not co-operative." They were there to talk the theory & practice of cooperation, and that is what they...