Word: cooperatives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cooper. Into action on the U. S. front went Alfred Duff Cooper, the Conservative statesman who last year resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty in protest to Prime Minister Chamberlain's "surrender" at Munich. He arrived in Manhattan with his beauteous actress wife, the former Lady Diana Manners, to tour the land and deliver 40 lectures (for a "very substantial fee," his agent said...
...Duff Cooper's first contribution was a press interview in which he announced his belief that the War will be ended, soon or late, by a revolution in Germany of the Right, joined in by the German Army. "National Socialism," said Lecturer Duff Cooper, "is a revolutionary force, a form of Bolshevism, and now the outer mask has been dropped. Many Germans, who had been told that they were the world's bulwark against Communism, now see that they have been made the allies of Communism. And it is well to remember that the Right in Germany...
...gallant Gesture,"--these are the elements which Percival Wren molded into a chivalric romance set in his own time, the dying days of the Victorian era. Hs novel forms such exciting dramatic material that countless actors of stage and screen have tried their hand at it. Latest are Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as the "Beau Geste" trio...
...that for large projects and noble ideals man is supreme. Nothing could prove more strikingly than knitting woman's devotion to the small things. . . . To see a knitter adding a few stitches between stops in a train or omnibus, purling two or casting off between glimpses of Mr. Cooper and Miss Colbert on the screen-this is an object lesson in concentration and in kindly devotion...
...Churchill's big blond son Randolph, 28, to the Hon. Pamela Digby, 19, eldest daughter of horsy Edward Kenelm Digby, Baron Digby. During the service Winston wept, but as he left the Queen Anne style St. John's church in Smith Square he beamed with Alfred Duff Cooper as the crowds, still exuberant over the debate on Lloyd George's speech the day before (see p. 36), howled "Good old Duff! Good old Churchill!" Press photographers had a field day as Randolph, ex-Hearst newspaperman, now a subaltern with a mechanized unit, stood smiling with his blue...