Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reel, showing the President as a "Doctor of Doctrines" singing a song to monopolistic big business interests, cracking a whip over Congress, and greeting small businessmen. The high point was a tableau exhibiting the discovery of the tooth which the President had extracted last autumn strung on the watch chain of a visiting Elk. The entertainment also included a glimpse of Vice President Garner shooting a cow instead of a deer...
Last fortnight all six women members of Congress-Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway, Representatives Caroline O'Day (N. Y.), Edith Nourse Rogers (Mass.), Mary T. Norton (N. J.), Nan W. Honeyman (Ore.), Virginia E. Jenckes (Ind.)- lined up chain-gang fashion for a group photograph (see cut). They had gathered to honor the prize winner of a contest conducted by the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee...
This time the fallen financier was taken to the Criminal Courts Building. While photographers ran ahead of the poker-faced broker, snapping his long, elegantly dressed frame and the little Porcellian pig glistening at his watch chain, several hundred idlers trailed in his wake. "Who is it?" cried a woman. "It's Whitney!" screamed a group of giggling schoolchildren...
Before the death of E. W. Scripps in 1926. the Scripps-Howard papers were a great chain but they were not the household word-almost comparable with the name Hearst for press potency-which they are today. With the successful purchase of the New York Telegram and later of the great New York World, they moved into Manhattan and gained prestige. Meanwhile Scripps-Howard came to identify a type of journalism, popular but not vulgar, liberal (supporting Roosevelt in his first term) but independent (criticizing Roosevelt later...
...Next largest chain: Hearst's, with 19 dailies...