Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private life. Commissioner Moss's business was show business. He and his brother, Benjamin S. Moss, were pioneer chain cinemansion operators, he coproduced a hit called Subway Express and for a long time was a prominent Theatre Guildsman. It was only natural that Commissioner Moss should concentrate his reform zeal on Broadway. He requisitioned dress rehearsal seats to all productions so that if a show was dirty it could be cleaned up without the furor of revision after the opening. He made all casting offices take out licenses, rid the city of unscrupulous booking agents. In 1934 he requested...
Like last week, the weakest link in the Harvard chain comes in the 150 pound class, where Bert Haines' first crew tackles a Tech boat it edged last week, a Columbia boat that beat Yale at the same time in New York...
...State." In all its 66 years no one had ever been convicted under that statute. Chiefly on the evidence of communist pamphlets found in his possession, a Georgia jury found Red Herndon guilty of violating it, got him an 18-to-20 year sentence on Georgia's chain gangs...
Until last week the full story behind that story had not been told. In its May issue FORTUNE cut through the maze of rumor and legend and revealed, without betraying its sources, the chain of events leading up to the settlement which averted a major industrial war. Branded as "pure hokum," along with the idea that the House of Morgan had forced the settlement, were reports that the burly labor leader and the patrician steelmaster had been brought together by 1) Manhattan's First National Bank, 2) President Thomas Moses of H. C. Frick Coke...
...Rodzinski, will broadcast one concert a week for 52 weeks. Toscanini and Rodzinski will each conduct ten as sustaining programs. The remaining 32 concerts may or may not be commercially sponsored. Who will conduct them is equally undecided. It seemed certain, however, that Columbia, which usually matches the rival chain feature for feature, would have to bestir itself to equal the first year-round radio concert project under such distinguished auspices...