Word: headship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people realize, however, what a highly centralized industry the film business is," Mr. Alstock remarked. "There are just four big companies: Fox, which owns the chain of Loew theatres; Paramount, which controls the Publix theatres; Warner First National; and Radio Keith Orpheum. The latter is under the headship of the Radio Corporation of America. So one great company manufactures the radio sets on which you hear, hires artists to broadcast and to make comedy reels, and owns the theatres in which the reels are shown...
...General Crosby will have under his direction the police, the fire and the traffic services. . . . His headship of those departments will be a guarantee to both the official and unofficial residents of the District and especially to the nation at large, that the capital of the nation will be free of organized crime...