Word: cooperate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What shocked Britons most was a statement from the accountants-Cooper Brothers & Co.-that they were "unable to report that in our opinion proper books of accounts have been kept by the corporation." But Sir Leslie Arthur ("Dick") Plummer, the corporation's chairman and Labor's vice president in charge of groundnuts, also had some excuse for this. In the first year (1947-48), the scheme had been run by a subsidiary of the empire-wide business colossus, Unilever. Plummer claimed that when his corporation took over a year ago, the books were already in chaos. This...
...Austin Cooper is a tweedy, grey-bearded Londoner of 59 who made his name as a poster designer. "But during the war," says Cooper, "my interest in posters faded. I found my hands were functioning without any volition. The first results were doodles, then automatic writing. I thought 'If my pen is doing this, why not the brushes?' One day my hand shot out. Much to my astonishment it picked up a brush and drew on a board...
Little did Cooper know what he was in for. The need to paint nothing in a know-nothing way grew on him day by day. He began getting up at 5 a.m. to start "work" on his pictures (abstractions done in watercolor, brown ink and pasted scraps of paper). To keep his art "automatic," he read the Book of Psalms while his hands did what they pleased. He became a vegetarian ("I don't think I could have worked so long on roast beef") and, what was more important, he found a dealer. Cooper's labors, on exhibition...
...serene little catalogue note of his own, Artist Cooper said he could be of scant help to the critics: "The unconscious painter is himself only a spectator of the work he produces." But, said Cooper, he could explain why he had signed and dated his work on the back instead of the front: "The pictures may be hung in any of four ways...
...self-made Millionaire Peter Cooper opened a free school in what was then midtown Manhattan to "improve and elevate the working classes of the City of New York" and to be "forever devoted to the advancement of science and art, in their application to the varied and useful purposes of life...