Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...County Council, which governs all London except the tiny "City," Laborite Morrison did not become chairman of the Council last week. That duty he delegated to Henry, Baron Sneil of Plumstead, a sober-sided Laborite Peer, bachelor son of a farm laborer. While Lord Snell was putting on the chain of office, Laborite Morrison was doing even better. Slum clearance and new housing projects were prime planks in his election platform. The same day the new council took office he appointed one Lewis Silkin to chairman the Housing Committee. Housing Chairman Silkin promptly an nounced that...
...tycoons will be those who were shrewd enough to support the Nazi party with handsome subscriptions in the days of its infancy. A case in point was the appointment of Dr. Krupp von Bohlen as Leader of the first group. Even that cherished Nazi ideal, abolition of department and chain stores to protect small shopkeepers, was quietly shelved under L. 0. U. G. E. Only one fact gave Dr. Schmitt pause last week...
Charles Laughton (Henry VIII); runner-up: Paul Muni (/ Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang...
Peering into the refrigerator of Atlanta's swanky Piedmont Driving Club. Georgia's Game & Fish Commissioner found a covey of frozen quail. The State regulation: No game to be kept after the hunting season, already closed two months. The penalty: $1.000 fine and twelve months on the chain-gang. The culprits: Clark Howell Jr., business manager of Atlanta's Constitution, Regent of Georgia University; Ernest Woodruff, director of Coca-Cola; Ryburn Clay, Ronald Ransom, F. W. Blalockt president, executive vice president & vice president of Atlanta's Fulton National; Robert F. Maddox, director of Atlanta...
...fight crime, and he has shown that the armed forces of crime are more numerous than those of the army and the navy. Massachusetts has offered the first practical proposal for giving teeth to the law and the defeat of this bill will represent one more in the long chain of victories the politicians have scored over the people...