Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business men, threatening to withdraw advertising. Papers he admitted working on without success were the New York Times and the Scripps-Howard group. He had also protested vigorously comments by Arthur Brisbane and the late Will Rogers anent holding companies. The Hearst Press as a whole and the Gannett chain he found no fault with. In fact he had wired William-Randolph Hearst ideas for editorials, had increased his advertising in Hearst papers...
...were, wrote Reporter McLean, three kinds of campers?"shell-shocked, whiskey-shocked, depression-shocked." About half were psychopaths. Most of their pay went to liquor dealers and moonshiners. "They're hell-raisers and do no good to anybody," said Charleston police. At Blaney some 15 veterans were on the chain gang. Kingstree citizens were worried by the campers' attentions to their "brass ankle women"?mongrel white-Negro-Indian wenches who hang about the Negro settlements. At Kingstree a score of drunken campers had just wrecked the entire second floor of the town jail. Women & children were staying...
McCrory. Operating 203 5¢ to $1 retail units in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, the South and Midwest, McCrory Stores Corp. slipped into bankruptcy in 1933, came under the broad roof of Section 77b a year and a half later. Old John G. McCrory, who founded the chain at Scottdale, Pa. in 1882, resigned as board chairman to be free to bid for the bankrupt properties. But in the stormy annals of McCrory's reorganization it was not John G. McCrory who played the major role but two brothers named George Keenan Morrow and Frederick Morrow...
...American Cotton Oil Co., had built up an enviable reputation as smart corporate reorganizers. After 1929 the Morrows were once set back on their heels when United Cigar Stores, which they controlled, went bankrupt. But their troubles with United Cigar did not prevent them from acquiring another damaged retail chain last year, McLellan Stores (TIME...
Page & Shaw did not remain obscure for long. Styling itself "the only international candy company," it opened branches in England, France and Canada, a chain of swank stores from Manhattan to San Francisco. By 1924 its sales reached a peak of 2,200,000 lb. per year. Then troubles came to Page & Shaw. Sales slumped, cash dwindled. Control had fallen into the hands of a Boston lawyer named Otis Emerson Dunham. Promoter Dunham shocked the Boston Better Business Bureau by giving away one share of common stock with every $2 worth of candy. In 1930 Promoter Dunham and two stockbrokers...