Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the new types of compact, lightweight, high-speed cameras, every reporter may now be his own photographer. And should be. The old World once issued handy cameras to all its newshawks (who soon lost them). So did the Journal. The practice is now coming back on the Gannett chain papers (notably in Albany and Elmira, N. Y.). whose editors are still searching for an "ideal foolproof camera...
...President. A double row of girls lined the long table in front of him, their pencils flashing over sheets of paper which they passed up for him to scan. He wore a dark blue suit and blue tie. His Phi Beta Kappa key gleamed on his gold watch-chain. John W. Davis was admitted. "Frank, it's wonderful!" said the man who got nowhere eight years ago. Al Smith, the man who got nowhere four years ago, said: "I am delighted...
...Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario of the epochmaking 18-piece orchestra was Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. In 1926 Moe Mark sold some of his chain of cinema theatres to Stanley Co. of America which merged (1928) with Warner Brothers; in 1929 he sold the rest to Warner...
...next year a baron. Between those years he had been a lieutenant of David Lloyd George, helped to engineer the House of Lords reform, survived the scandal that threatened to end his career. As Attorney General he approved a contract whereby British Marconi Co. was permitted to construct a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire. Before the contract was drawn he had bought 10,000 shares in American Marconi Co., of which his brother was agent. He had disposed of 1,000 shares to Lloyd George, sold the rest at a profit. Newspapers made a political issue...
Next to the Hearst papers the Scripps-Howard chain has pounded the Republican lines hardest with political pictures...