Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last big case, took more than four hours to plead for acquittal. He swung his long arms, glared, shouted, coaxed, sentimentalized, used all his courtroom tricks before sinking back into his chair an exhausted old man. His argument was that the defendants had been trapped by Fate in a chain of sorrowful circumstances beyond their control...
...changing from antagonism to alliance. Much advertising money spent in radio now finds its way to publishers' purses. The Columbia system estimates that 35 of its 90 stations are affiliated with newspapers. The Federal Radio Commission says "about 100 newspapers have stations or arrangements with stations." Last week Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett bought a small station at Elmira, N. Y., was reported in the market for more. Last week there were rumors that William Randolph Hearst was seeking a full day's time on N. B. C. or Columbia, that he sought to have his WINS station...
Kindly give me your authority or the source of your information for the statements pp. 19 & 20 of the March 7 issue, concerning the existence of a chain of subterranean forts which guard the French frontier from the English Channel to tl e Mediterranean...
...existence of France's chain of subterranean forts is well known to military authorities of all nations, but to convince British husbands or uncles, let them read a long descriptive article (with map) on the subject by Editor-in-Chief Stephane Lauzanne of the semi-official Paris Matin, published by the New York Times April 12, 1931.-ED. First Class Postage Sirs...
...president. From then on he kept a finger in every department. As a salesman and distributor he gained the confidence of the exhibitors and when the Government upset the "uniform standard contract'' in 1930 he was instrumental in having the 5-5-5 conference (five independents, five chain exhibitors, five distributors) reach a new agreement. Members of the conference still recall his fluent arguments and when he resigned from Paramount he was delighted to receive resolutions of praise from exhibitors...