Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst Press behaved purely according to formula in helping to perpetuate the popular but erroneous idea, carefully revived by Prosecutor Pecora. that the present John P. Morgan is the main driving force of the House of Morgan. Also according to formula behaved the Scripps-Howard chain of 25 newspapers. Their formula being "liberalism." none must excel them in excoriation of unphilanthropic wealth. Their lead hound, the New York World Telegram, soon turned the predictable "revelations" of the investigation into a "shocking" scandal...
...basement. Half the girls have outside, part-time jobs. A "tradition" of planting ivy from historic places was begun last year in The Bronx. Someone tried to popularize wearing academic gowns but this died out. Hunter thinks its spring "sing" as exciting as Vassar's Daisy Chain or Smith's Rally Day. Girls from each class gather in the Metropolitan Opera House, wearing costumes, and compete with serious and comic songs based on central themes like Mother Goose or the Arabian Nights...
Seated at the committee table beneath a brilliantly lighted chandelier which blazed down upon his white-fringed pate, Banker Morgan fiddled with a heavy gold watch chain, beamed upon the committee as the show began. At the opening he was permitted to read a prepared statement. For about 15 minutes he read rapidly a definition and defense of private banking. A ring on his finger glinted gold. Only direct allusion to his own company was the fact that he has always been "averse to his partners' holding directorships in other banking institutions but he consents because "the only...
...Behind them came other students and a line of motor trucks piled high with books. More students clung to the trucks, waving flaring torches that they hurled through the air at the log pile. Blue flames of gasoline shot up, the pyre blazed. One squad of students formed a chain from the pyre to the trucks. Then came the books, passed from hand to hand while a leather-lunged student roared out the names of the authors...
...with high-jackers or covetous rivals. Just what happened at the wreck scene the Coast Guard did not report, but presently a Captain John Hall of the Theresa & Dan and Jnord, also trying to salvage the Merida, ran in to Norfolk, roaring that Captain Bowdoin had cut his anchor chain...