Word: poker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having been a Wartime propagandist under George Creel, a division chief in the Office of Education be fore he went to Akron. Methodist and Rotarian, Dr. Zook kept more free of local politics than most municipal university presidents. Because he never told how he voted, he was called "Poker Face'' by his professors and by Akron politicians. Dr. Zook did not seek his U. S. job, nor did his friends seek it for him. Dr. Zook moved with his wife and adopted son to Wesley Heights, Washing ton suburb. He plays golf twice a week, is noted...
...make lending easier Mr. Jones urged all banks to sell preferred stock to the R. F. C.: "A man with plenty of chips can play a better game of poker than one who is playing 'scared' or 'short' money. ... Let us assume that you do not need any new capital in your banks, is it not wise, as well as patriotic, to go along in the preferred stock program? ... Be smart for once. Take the Government in partnership with you, and then go partners with the President in the recovery program...
...Columbia conferees were gently discouraged by one man who could do so with authority. He was Dr. George Frederick Zook, the amiable, poker-faced new U. S. Commissioner of Education. There is, said he in effect, nothing on the platter for pedagogy. Perhaps some money for new school buildings. But nothing in the way of grants for what teachers need most: salaries. Dr. Zook went on to soothe the pedagogs, counsel them thus...
...clock was whirring which meant eight. He had to take a taxi to get to the station in time, and that left him only 40 cents to lunch on. On the cold drafty trains, filled with foul cigar smoke, men in crumpled brown suits, played poker...
...league teams in the U. S. Dignitaries like onetime Secretary of War General Joaquin Amaro, General Jaime Quinones, Julio Miller, whose father-in-law is Mexico's Minister to England, play fair polo at their club near Mexico City. The country's boss, Plutarco Elias Calles. prefers poker but he also enjoys riding, golf; he had a set of Bobby Jones clubs with him at Ensenada where he was vacationing last week. President Rodriguez, an even more enthusiastic golfer, recently helped to arrange a splendid new course at Cuernavaca but golf is not yet Mexico's longest...