Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Business School is able to retain the respect and good-will of many of America's leaders of industry and finance when it is so clear to even the immature minds of editors of the CRIMSON and Mr. Satterthwaite that the Business School is simply a school for teaching chain grocery clerks how to make money. But then--the CRIMSON will take pleasure in lumping all business leaders under the name "Big Business" and placing them in the reference file entitled "Material for sarcastic and cynical editorials...
More like their father than the others is Son Eugene Alexander Howe who ran the Atchison Globe for twelve years after Ed Howe left, then moved to Amarillo, Tex. to start a chain of papers of his own. His column in the Amarillo News-Globe, The Tactless Texan, has given Gene Howe more than his neighborly nickname "Old Tack.'' He got himself nationally quoted in 1928, when he called Lindbergh "swell-headed . . . simple-minded . . . lucky"; in 1929, when he said that Mary Garden was "so old she actually tottered." When Mary Garden visited Amarillo for the second time...
...Tallahassee, Fla. Gerald 0. Steele, convict, serving 15 years on the chain gang, was informed that his sentence had been reduced to five years because he had written to the Pardon Board and Governor Dave Sholtz praising the chain gang system...
...looked on with more cynicism than surprise when the H. A. A. took to boosting the sale of football tickets by subway posters, but one hardly expected to find the Business School seducing unwary prospects by magazine advertisements. Apparently its ballyhoo about placing all its graduates (as clerks in chain groceries) isn't having its calculated effect on the enrollment...
...Penney had known all along that his bank was insolvent, had seen to it that the bulk of Penney deposits was withdrawn before the bank went under. Young Jim Penney went to Wyoming for his health and while clerking in a store got the idea of building a chain. His original "Golden Rule Stores" grew into J. C. Penney Co. with 1,471 units in 48 States and an annual business of $155,000,000. Last week from his home in White Plains, N. Y. James Cash Penney dismissed the depositors' charges as "un-true." His attorney stated that...