Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last few years of crisis -the fact that U. S. newspaper publishers have shifted their positions more frequently and more drastically than have U. S. politicians. And one of the more interesting case histories may well be Publisher Roy Wilson Howard, of the traditionally "liberal" Scripps-Howard chain...
...once extravagant claims to a pompous nothingness. Current label: "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is Recommended as a Vegetable Tonic in Conditions for which this Preparation is Adapted." As for Lydia Gove, whose interests also include a $250,000 investment in the Howard Johnson ice cream & restaurant chain, her feud with the Pinkhams is not necessarily over. Her probable next move: an appeal to the full bench of Maine's Supreme Court...
...many a swingster to stifle his hot-licks for fear of violating an ASCAP copyright. That was hard on many a younger listener. Aside from hot record programs from independent stations, only reasonably warm music on the radio was the show called ASCAP on Parade, aired by an independent chain on Saturday night. Last week, officially because Producer Billy Rose was too busy with private matters to handle it, more probably because ASCAP was toying with compromise, ASCAP on Parade was withdrawn. But more than offsetting its demise was the advent of an NBC program called What...
Finding him "grossly negligent in the performance of his duties as a director," Judge John Clark Knox ruled in Manhattan Federal Court that pious, stockbreeding Chain-Storeman James Cash Penney, as chairman (and only non-dummy director) of Miami's defunct City National Bank, must pay for losses sustained by depositors and stockholders when the bank flopped in 1930. Likely sum due depositors (in addition to the 40% already paid them...
...propaganda that has come from Hollywood so far, it may be the end of one anti-Nazi cycle or the beginning of another. So Ends Our Night is the work of an upstart team of independent producers: David Loew, onetime vice president of Loew's Inc., the theatre chain his father Marcus Loew founded, and Harvardman Albert Lewin, onetime instructor in English at the University of Missouri. Lewin was associate producer (with the late Irving Thalberg) of such M. G. M. hits as Mutiny on the Bounty, The Good Earth...