Word: chain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herndon case, which is less well known, is that of a 19 year old negro sentenced two years ago to 20 years in the chain gang for inciting to insurrection under an obsolete statute of the post-Civil War era. His crime was the possession of radical literature. Herndon is now at liberty on $15,000 ball raised by the International Labor Defense while his case is also being appealed before the Supreme Court...
...shrubbery into his path. One pinioned Editor Leach's arms, forced him to his knees. The other mercilessly drove his fists again &again into Editor Leach's face, closed both his eyes. The ruffians took Editor Leach's wallet, containing $40, and his gold watch, chain & penknife which his wife had given him before they were married. By the time the editor recovered sight & senses his attackers had vanished. But he found a small address book which later led to the arrest of one of the hold...
...partners with fresh capital were sought and before the Century's turn the last of the Lords and the Taylors were out. The second crisis occurred just before the War when the store moved to its present location on Fifth Avenue. By then a unit in a chain of department stores, Lord & Taylor's was saved by the banks after the failure of Merchant John Claflin...
...their trouble-shooter the banks drafted a bright young Arkansas banker named Samuel Wallace Reyburn.* Out of the reorganization of both the chain and the store came a rock-sound Lord & Taylor and Associated Dry Goods Corp., on whose board ever since has sat at least one Morgan partner...
Melon. "This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. The advertisers who pay for the programs you listen to morning, noon and night bought more time on the world's largest single broadcasting chain in October than in any previous month of our history. We billed them $1,700,000, which was 56% more than in October last year. And in the first ten months of the year we billed our customers for more than $11,000,000 worth of time-a 55% increase over the same period of last year...