Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank C. Walker announced that he had resigned as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee last November. Out side of Washington he practices law in Manhattan, is counsel for a chain of cinema houses in Pennsylvania. Inside the capital all his legal talents go to his job as executive director of President Roosevelt's National Emergency Council...
...interest in the Metropolitan arose from the fact that for the last two years its subsidiary, National Broadcasting Co., had been putting the Met's Saturday matinees on the air as a sustaining feature. Currently the Met matinees are being sponsored over the NBC chain by Lucky Strike which contributes some $100,000 per season to the Met treasury for the privilege. But last week Met Director Sarnoff wanted to talk less about broadcasting grand opera than he did about a new RCA opus...
...star under which Robert Hayes Gore flew down to Puerto Rico last year was an evil one. Fifteen years with small-town Scripps-Howard papers, an excursion into the mail order insurance business, and, finally, the proprietorship of a chain of Florida papers which he opportunely flung on the Roosevelt bandwagon had failed to endow blunt, bald Mr. Gore with the tact and resource required of peppery Puerto Rico's Governor...
...Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Warner Bros...
Married. Doris Warner, 21, eldest daughter of Harry M. Warner of cinema's three Warner Bros.; and Mervyn Leroy, 33, Warner director (Little Caesar, Five Star Final, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang); elaborately, in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Father Warner's gift was a sound film of the wedding...