Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upstairs reporters found Lockhart cringing in his cell. He had two more confessions to make. One was that he had escaped from a Georgia chain gang in 1931 after assaulting another girl. The other was that his real name was B. B. ("Bunce'') Napier. On his trembling lap lay a Bible opened to Matthew 7: 1-2: Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Napier said he guessed he knew how Leo Frank felt that...
Serious, square-headed Ivan I. Gordeeff, agent in the U. S. for Russia's great Torgsin chain-store system, proudly announced last week in Manhattan that Torgsin had taken over the U. S. 5?-&-10?? store idea. Torgsin's 5-&-10 kopek stores are already doing business in Leningrad, Moscow, Kharkov and a few other big cities. They are actually 5-kopek (4?), 10-kopek (9?), 25, 50 and 100-kopek or one-ruble (87?) stores. Like all Torgsin stores they are designed as bait for foreigners' money. For 5-&-10 they sell knives, tumblers, toothpaste, soap...
...Gothic Rathaus. Appointed directly by Chancellor Dollfuss. Burgomaster Richard Schmitz is a fellow War veteran, a fellow Catholic, a fellow mem ber of the Christian Socialist Party and a onetime Vice Chancellor of Austria. He appeared in the city hall wearing round his neck the golden chain of office of Vienna's Burgomasters, first time it had been worn since the Socialist administration discarded it after the War as a useless bourgeois symbol...
...Burgomaster brought more to his city than a chain. Proclaimed three days before was a new municipal charter. Municipal elections are totally abolished. The Burgomaster is appointed directly by the Chancellor, and together they choose three Vice-Burgomasters. They chose one to represent the Heimwehr, one the employers, one labor. The Burgomaster will choose a new advisory body called the Wiener Bürgerschaft. Three Catholic priests will be on it. and there will be one Jew to represent the dwindling rights of that race. All must swear to uphold "the Christian German character of Vienna...
...Reno. Nevada is as short of banks as it is of rain. It was the first state to declare a moratorium during the Depression-Nov. 1, 1932, day after it celebrated the 68th anniversary of its admission to the Union. No banks have failed since but a tottering chain of twelve institutions, owned by George Wingfield, oldtime gambler and mining speculator, never reopened. Transamerica's eastward move brought promise of a desert blooming of new banks. Reno's First National has long been hand-in-glove with Amadeo Peter Giannini and Nevadans welcomed the deal, hoping that under...