Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like its 22 sister papers of the lively, crusading Scripps-Howard chain, the New York World-Telegram (circulation: 395,000) has plugged for Franklin Roosevelt with friendly reporting, vigorous if unin spired editorials from the Washington bureau headed by George B. ("Deac") Parker. High point of Scripps-Howard editorializing came last fortnight in a glowing confession of faith which blurted: "Speaking generally, we are for Roosevelt for the same reason we think we would have been for Jefferson or Jackson or Lincoln had we lived in their day." Since providing President Roosevelt with a take-off for his famed "breathing...
...Landon might quite often be found at home with Governor Landon and the children. What an infinitely calm, reassuring and soothing picture this presents!" Provincial Partisans. As they do the year round, the great metropolitan news papers and chains have set the pace for the rest of the nation's daily press during the campaign. Of the lesser chain publishers, peripatetic Paul Block, with seven dailies in his pocket, has pattered in the footsteps of William Randolph Hearst...
...make the crankshafts of British airplane engines, another is to make the cylinders, a third the ignition systems and so on. Vehemently Lord Nuffield pointed out to Lord Swinton that under any such scheme an enemy bomb which destroyed, for example, the crankshaft factory, could break the chain of British aircraft engine manufacture and bring it to a standstill. On the other hand, if complete engines were made by each of ten plants, the bombing of one would leave the other nine still turning out engines. "Your whole shadow scheme is completely unworkable!" Lord Nuffield told Lord Swinton...
...What made it funny was that he had just finished a picture where a man came to his office to find his name being taken off the door. As an Associate Producer under Zanuck, Wallis supervised One-Way Passage, Gold Diggers of 1933, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Two and one-half years later Zanuck left to form Twentieth Century Productions. Wallis' name went back on the most important Warner Bros, door, has remained there ever since...
...British Ambassador might have taken exception to the Washington Post's assertion that King Edward "plans to marry" Mrs. Ernest Simpson. Or Sir Ronald might have objected to the United Press story carried from coast to coast by the Scripps-Howard chain under headlines the entire width of the page...