Word: cooperatives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay, 24, great-granddaughter of Inventor-Industrialist Peter Cooper (founder of Manhattan's famed free educational centre, Cooper Union), heiress to $10,000,000; and one Gene Bradstreet, 23; she for the second time; in Reno. In 1936 Heiress Hewitt started suit against her mother for tricking her into being sterilized, allowed the suit to languish because "no matter what she is, she's still my mother." Next year she married Ronald Gay, onetime automobile mechanic, lived with him a few months, sued him for divorce. Recently she has been living at El Cortez...
...fought prohibition since 1933, when he helped swing Tennessee's ratification of the 21st Amendment by a bare 6,808 votes. Since then he has deposed two Dry Governors (McAlister, Browning) who would not go along with him for State repeal. Last week his latest protege, Governor Prentice Cooper, vetoed the Assembly's repealer. This deed may alter Mr. Cooper's political future, but it did not alter the legislators' minds. Crying, "We've got the liquor now: let's regulate and tax it!" they overrode Governor Cooper even as a Dry Assembly overrode...
Despite the efforts of Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon, and despite photography which won the Academy Award, "The Cowboy and the Lady" taken as a whole is only mediocre. A ludicrous plot with an unconvincing combination of humorous and serious elements prevents the film from being more than fairly good entertainment...
...Benchley in the February issue of Listener's Digest entitled, "Swing: It Origin and Development." Sample quote: "I feel particularly fitted to discuss swing music, because I can't carry a tune either." . . . Recommended to those swing fans who specialize in trying to find unrecognized good jazz is Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans on Decca's race record series. The band cut Chick Webb and gave Basic a good scare . . The second of the Goodman bands to leave the mother organization (Harry James' being the first) is Teddy Wilson's bunch, scheduled to start in late March . . . The height...
...Jumped on William Cooper & Nephews, Inc. of Chicago. FTC accepted its promise not to advertise that its Pulvex Flea Powder "kills fleas 100% faster," without saying faster than what...