Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education and religion to only a few intimates. Born of an Episcopal family, of British ancestry, he was never a church member, never a Ku Kluxer. He believed that religion is a personal matter, that church dogma should not be taught as fact. His reason for placing his chain-schools in the country, for restricting enrolment to native or British-blooded whites, was that isolation and a common background would give his youths a better chance to study, his schools a better chance to succeed. First two school wil be started on farm lands included in the foundation. In charge...
...institution. The artist is Thomas Hart Benton. Artist Benton was born in Neosho, Mo., on the edge of the Ozarks, a great-nephew of Andrew Jackson's trusted Senator Thomas Hart Benton, son of Congressman Maecenas Eason Benton. At 17, Maecenas' son was carrying a chain as a surveyor's assistant in Joplin. Shortly thereafter he began a long, arduous, uninteresting art apprenticeship as a newspaper cartoonist, then as an art student in Chicago, Paris, New York, where he kept himself alive painting scenery for the old haphazard cinema studios of Fort Lee, N. J. Six months...
...then known to include such believers in Prohibition as Chainstoreman James Cash Penney, National Grange Master Louis John Taber, Authors Zane Grey and Zona Gale. Last week the organization announced a total membership of more than 2,000 businessmen scattered over 46 states. Its program had been endorsed by Chain Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett. Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times, Publisher William Hutchinson Cowles of the Spokane Spokesman-Review...
...general manager of all Hearst dailies, with a reputed salary of $150,000 a year. The course of the next three years was not wholly smooth. Big, self-confident Col. Knox several times offered his resignation, which "W. R." refused, believing perhaps that experience in the big business of chain publishing would eventually shape his man to the ways of Hearst. Last week he accepted it, uttered regrets. Reason given by Col. Knox: "... A difference of opinion as to methods of management." Friends said that Col. Knox had saved all his Hearst salary, that he is well supported...
...Farmer Patrick Devine & son were in his wagon; his horse in front; his cow behind; his dog gamboling here & there. Up leaped the dog, bit the horse's nose. Terrified, horse and cow upset the wagon. Farmer Devine threw his son out, jumped, caught his foot in a chain, was killed under the wheels...