Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attacks. This is all according to Tweed; but Holy Joe McKee injected an interesting sideshow to the three-ring circus yesterday when he brought out masses of evidence to prove that Laguardia was in thought, and in deed a true Communist of the most virulent sort. By a chain of irrefutable logic he showed that since Comrade Fiorello had signed his name to the roster of Professor John Dewey's League for Independent Political Action, and since that revolutionary organization had printed one or two issues of semi-Marxist doctrine, therefore "Laguardia's plans reveal a menace to our national...
...saved some apples from his school lunch. Going by the Hunter's Inn he went into the yard and tossed an apple to Saucer, the she bear. He tossed another to Cup. In hunger or jealousy, Saucer lunged to get Cup's apple too. Her worn chain snapped...
...single intellectual basis. But Gertrude Stein, seemingly the most ponderous and immobile of them, has really covered the most ground. In this, her autobiography, she reverts to the limpid, nerveless style which served for the earliest of her books. Not since "Three Lives" has she been so willing to chain herself to the actual meaning of words, to limit her scope so soberly to the common associations which they bring. It was an axiom of the schools that with "The Making of Americans". Gertrude Stein had set out boldly and forever to the promised land where words have other more...
...courtroom stirred with tense excitement as Witness Urschel identified the chain and battered tin cup which definitely established his hideout as the gangster-ridden Texas farm of R. G. ("Boss") Shannon. In the most graphic and sensational trial Oklahoma had seen in years, twelve defendants were charged with conspiracy to kidnap the wealthy oil man. whose family had paid about $200,000 for his release last July. Besides Bates there were seven alleged money-passers from St. Paul and Minneapolis, Farmer Shannon, his wife and son, and most notorious of all, Harvey J. Bailey. The law was taking no chances...
John G. McCrory, 73, founder of McCrory Stores Corp. (5?-&-10? chain), resigned as board chairman that he might be free to bid for the bankrupt properties. Farm-born Merchant McCrory, who opened his first store in Scottdale, Pa. in 1882 and who branched until he had peppered the East and South with 244 units, sold control to Merrill, Lynch & Co. two years ago. Because it could not obtain usual seasonal bank financing, the chain was placed in bankruptcy last January...