Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House seat. The other three fillers-in elected were New Dealers: Louisiana's Maloney, Pennsylvania's Boland, Illinois' McKeough. Conspicuously not elected to the Committee was a self-proclaimed candidate. Wright Patman of Texas, author of Bill No. 1 on the House calendar, to tax chain stores out of existence...
What else Congress might do to or for business was equally conjectural. First on the House list was the Patman chain-store tax bill, designed to put interstate chains out of business. Other dire legislation may come from the monopoly hearings to be resumed next week. On the plus side, business anticipates juicy returns from the national defense program. And the railroads, pleading on bonded knees for legislative aid, seem fairly sure...
Verne H. Philbrook, president of the Georgian chain, declined to say yesterday if and when he would open the picketed cafeteria...
After communication with several large chain stores and warehouses late yesterday, W. H. Rutherford, statistician of the state division, said no immediate food shortage threatened...
...idea is to enforce the agreement; that's all," he said. Verne Philbrook, president of the Georgian chain, could not be reached for a statement yesterday...