Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtroom on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Federal Courthouse, signed away her U. S. citizenship, became solely a Danish subject like her husband, sailed back to England on the Europa after 36 hours in the U. S. Through her attorneys the granddaughter of the 5?-&-10? chain's Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth explained she desired to avoid "various legal complications." Biggest complication avoided: the estimated $21,000,000 U. S. inheritance tax her estate would lose at her death...
...Guild's victory was won when Davega-City Radio, Inc., electrical and sporting goods chain, applied for an injunction against Guild picketing, was refused by Judge Leander B. Faber. Davega then discontinued its advertising in the Eagle. In another virtually identical case, the Guild lost. One Mile Reif's beauty parlor which advertised in the Eagle was picketed. One of the picketers dressed as a monkey and went through simian antics as he marched back & forth carrying a sign "I was once a beautiful woman." Another picketer shouted: "Don't patronize Mademoiselle
...comic weekly and reappeared as a picture magazine. Judge lost a competitor besides acquiring old Life's circulation and features, but Judge's net paid circulation averaged only 181,902 for the first half of 1937.* By August, Publisher Bourjaily was optimistically soliciting subscribers with a chain-letter plan. Last week, however, after its twelfth issue under Mr. Bourjaily, Judge had a new publisher for its December number-slow-spoken, seasoned Salesman Harry M. Newman...
...comparatively unexplored and almost impenetrable jungle. We, therefore, take this opportunity to reassure all such scribes. We have records to show that the pack train was serviced all the way with axle grease and the latest in horse shoes by our service stations, which same extend in an unbroken chain all the way from the Colombian border to Panama City (?). No doubt but that the trail blazed by Señor Divo is the forerunner of the Pan-American Highway through this jungle and we wish to announce that our Service Stations have gained a decided jump on the engineers...
...camp meetings, Chain gangs, political rallies; of a huge-columned mansion porch, with a poor-white woman and her child sitting on one of the broad stone steps. "I don't know what ever happened to the family that built this house before the War. A lot of families live here now. My husband and me moved in and get two rooms for five dollars a month...