Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Muni, he made The Valiant and Seven Faces, neither of which won him cinema fame. He returned to Broadway in 1931 for the smash success Counsellor-at-Law, and after that made his first hit movie, Scarface. Since then he has made I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Hi, Nellie, Bordertown, Black Fury, Dr. Socrates, The Story of Louis Pasteur and The Good Earth. Pasteur won him the Academy prize and furnished a precedent for Zola. Muni now gets about $100,000 a picture...
...protesting the interference of C.I.O. Last week it was learned that a guiding spirit among these citizens was John Price Jones, famed Manhattan publicist and fundraiser. A former resident of Johnstown, he had foregone his Harvard reunion to help formulate and promulgate nationally a "Johnstown Plan," calling for a chain of citizens' committees across the land to protect the right-to-work against exponents of the right-to-strike...
Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Norman Chandler of the Los Angeles Times, Harry Bitner of the Hearstpapers, John Cowles of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, Chain-Publisher Frank Gannett (see col. 2), the Chicago Tribune's McCormick, the publisher of the Chicago Drover's Journal and 558 other publishing executives great and small from up & down the land converged in Chicago last week for a one-day emergency convention. It would be, they had been told, a "most important meeting" (TIME, June 28). At the rallying cry of Nashville's young James Geddes ("Jimmy...
...deal was with Frank Ernest Gannett, 60, owner of a chain of 19 ultra-respectable newspapers mostly in New York State. By its terms Hearst cleared out of Rochester, where he had been losing $125,000 a year and where he once gave away automobiles to lure circulation, leaving Gannett a virtual monopoly in that city with his evening Times-Union and morning and Sunday Democrat & Chronicle. Hearst's Rochester employes, out of jobs, were attempting at week's end to raise money to start a new paper...
Rochester was, in 1918, the anchor city of the Gannett chain. Mr. Hearst invaded it in 1922 during his last dream of a personal political career. Albany, on the other hand, had been a Hearst city (evening and Sunday Times-Union) for four years when Publisher Gannett marched there in 1928 to buy the Knickerbocker Press (morning) and News (evening). With Mr. Hearst now out of Rochester, Mr. Gannett was agreeable last week to merging the old (1842) Knickerbocker Press with his News, taking Albany's evening field for the resultant News-Press, and letting Mr. Hearst shift...