Word: chain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...There is nothing more for me to do in Argentina," said he to the Belgrano's commander. "I had better go." But, although the Uruguayan Government had been officially advised that the Belgrano would bring Dr. Irigoyen to Montevideo, she remained anchored last week, swinging irresolutely at her chain off Buenos Aires, the exile of Irigoyen being delayed until some spot should be found where he would not be too welcome...
...thing that had been predicted. Fire broke out in "Tempo No. 4" quartering the Federal Trade Commission, burned savagely for three hours, gutted the tindery building, injured 20 firemen, destroyed countless Government files and documents.* Lost or damaged were the Trade Commission's records of investigations into chain stores, newsprint, power companies, cottonseed, peanuts. Replacement of some of the data from outside sources was possible, though slow and difficult. The destruction of "Tempo No. 4" gave President Hoover a new and concrete argument with which to push his building expansion program...
...Spring Song by Sousa's Band. . . . She is as bouncing, effervescent, indomitable, cyclonic, ululating and incredible as her literary style. . . . There is a high wind about Amy that blows your hat off." Her successor is Lloyd Lewis, author of Myths After Lincoln, publicity director for Balaban & Katz cinemansion chain, co-author?with the Daily New's Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith?of Chicago: The History of Its Reputation...
...Billings case was the San Francisco News. The News is a Scripps-Howard paper and Publisher Roy Howard went to San Francisco personally to supervise the building up of the Mooney-Billings story into a Sacco-Vanzetti Case of the West?a feature for the nation-wide Scripps-Howard chain. Observers outside of California also knew that leading papers not in the Scripps-Howard chain had been playing up California's "holy show" all over the land and would doubtless have done so regardless of how the San Francisco press treated the story...
...Bright, N. J. Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club ?a tournament which has become regarded as a more important sign-pointer for the national than any other mid-season event ? Ellsworth Vines was no longer unknown. People had learned about him ? that his father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, that he began playing when he was six and was later coached by Mercer Beasley who also developed Clifford Sutter, national intercollegiate champion. He won the national junior doubles with Keith Gledhill last year, is ranked No. 2 in junior singles. He had never seen a grass...