Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pyramid Trusts Flayed. "The mountebanks of the economic world," continued Signore Mussolini, looking several such on the Council benches directly in the eye, "complicate everything with innumerable companies on a chain system, with boards of directors composed of nonentities who exercise no true leadership, often with faked balance sheets and non-existent dividends. They are the true, authentic, most dangerous kind of antiFascists because they speculate on the good faith of the public. Prison is small retribution for their misdeeds. They sow such infinite ruin and misery and they do such harm that they truly deserve Death...
...Banks & Insurance. ?222,372,485 $108,218,300 Chain Stores 85,803,342 49,054,580 Coppers 144,677,695 110,003,052 Department Stores 22,359,306 16,503,911 Food & Packing 195,543,847 106,730,591 Mail Order 21,596,271 10,090,099 Motors 161,155,075 167,232,964 Oils 349,135,421 241,925,128 Public Utility 730,880,227 448,865,215 Railroads 376,287,831 308,347,324 Railroad Equipment 41,948,706 40,827,668 Steels 146,241,209 100,746,723 Tobaccos 75,298,000 61,808,946 Miscellaneous...
...chain store is the outstanding development of the last 20 years in merchandising. We are now facing a crisis, due to the unwarranted attacks of a militant minority." So last week spoke Albert Henry Morrill, President of National Chain Store Association, President of Kroger Grocery & Baking Corp. His speech, opening the N. C. S. A. convention in Chicago, sounded the defensive note that rang forth again & again throughout the meeting...
...endeavor to develop speed in carrying out of assignments, Coach Horween yesterday sent his first string eleven through a hard offensive and defensive scrimmage with the seconds. No chain lines were used, and no record was kept of downs or yardage, but the developing of speed was the chief object of the workout...
...votes. With the nomination equivalent to election "Phil" La Follette will enter the Madison State House just 30 years after his late great father, Robert Marion ("Fighting Bob") La Follette, to carry on the Progressive program of a democracy of small communities, municipal control of power & utilities, eradication of chain banks, chain stores...