Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most exotic. Having savored Upton Sinclair's EPIC in 1934, she celebrated 1935 by holding the longest, bitterest, most be-lobbied session of her Legislature in history, a free-for-all that ended last week on the front doorstep of Governor Frank Merriam. Today 22 States have chain store taxes. Into the heated session of the California Legislature, Progressives introduced a chain store tax on a California scale- $1 for one store, $2 for the second, $4 for the third and so on in geometric progression up to $500 on the tenth and each additional store. Since California...
Born in 1883, a onetime New York World reporter who got into the cinema business in 1914, Producer Sheehan was right-hand man to William Fox when that ambitious onetime garment worker was building up his topheavy theatre chain. When Fox was ousted, fat, jolly Producer Sheehan remained, on such good terms with Mr. Fox's enemies that, instead of losing his job as the studio's production head, he held it through two reorganizations. In 1932, when he had the nervous breakdown which is often another Hollywood euphemism for an ousting, it looked as if Producer Sheehan...
Black little Robert Barnes and big brown Woodrow Wilson Shropshire say they were sent to solitary confinement in a North Carolina chain-gang "dark house" last January because they warmed their feet at a roadside fire after a guard told them not to. The guard's story is that the two Negro convicts-Barnes received stolen goods; Shropshire had driven while drunk-were put in solitary because they refused to work. The Negroes say that they were manacled upright ten hours a day for nine days, that a little wood stove was lit each morning but soon went...
Since North Carolina public opinion is thoroughly aroused against the Negroes' keepers and the whole reeking chain-gang system, consensus was that Robert Barnes's and Woodrow Wilson Shropshire's lost legs would be the price of a new and more merciful penological system in the State...
...crook is not so annoying as the shady dealer operating on the frontiers of legality. Last week Director of Registration Bane cracked down with a stop-order suspending sale of stock in a Tulsa concern called Wee Investors Royalty Co. Wee Investors proposed to sell its stock on a chain-letter basis. In the studied understatement of Mr. Bane's phraseology the proposition appeared to be "misleading." And last week Counsel Burns obtained injunctions against two security dealers, one of which was blandly assuring prospective investors that "the Government and John D. Rockefeller were behind all oil properties...