Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week did the Paradise of the Pacific become a restless purgatory of murder and race hatred. The killing of Kahahawai climaxed a long chain of ugly events on the island of Oahu growing out of the lust of mixed breeds for white women (TIME...
...associates had acquired operating control of the Book-Cadillac, would manage it from. Manhattan through a resident staff. It is expected that actual ownership will be bought soon. Mr. Hitz also indicated that this is but the first step in the formation of a new national hotel chain. Hotelman Hitz is 41. When he was 16 he emigrated from Vienna, obtained work in a cheap restaurant to be sure of food. Ten years ago he was made manager of Cleveland's Fenway Hall. Six years later he was general manager of Cincinnati's Hotel Gibson. He was placed in charge...
...Scouts, urged Scouts everywhere to destroy, as senseless and dangerous, any "chain letter" they may receive. Said he: "Letters I have received have threatened me with all sorts of disasters if I disobeyed their instructions. I have destroyed scores of them in my life but the disasters have never come...
...many spectators as they could by holding it in Moore's Opera House. Outside were sold phonograph records, sheet music composed about the Quiet Dell tragedy, a pamphlet called The Love Secrets of West Virginia's Bluebeard. Led into the Opera House every day on a chain like a little bear, Mr. Powers sat on the stage and chewed gum apathetically. After hearing his defense, which attributed the murders to two mythical acquaintances of Powers', a jury of farmers and townspeople retired to the star's dressing room, deliberated for not quite two hours. From...
...Carver, chairman of the Department of History, Government, and Economics, in an interview yesterday. "In America today there are great demands for certain important commodities. We have in the country an ample supply of raw materials, labor, capitol, and buyers. Trained organizers are the only links in this chain which are missing, and which keep the cycle from becoming complete. Only men who have mastered the theory of modern industrial methods are capable of regulating an industry so that it will yield sufficient profits to pay a reasonable wage to the laborers. Today we find few such men, especially...