Word: jam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perfection of this new technique of visible, audible journalism was one problem. How to sell the product against the ice-jam of cinema block-booking was another. Should TIME hand The March of Time over to one of the big distributing systems? Contrary to orthodox advice, TIME decided to take a chance on doing its own distributing through an "independent" distributor, First Division Exchanges, Inc. Vice President David L. Loew of Loew's Inc. broke the ice by being the first to contract for The March of Time for his chain. Other potent chains-Balaban & Katz, Poli-New England...
...inside. None has uttered a word. This modification of the common police practice of the ''gold-fish bowl" has not budged Hauptmann's stolidity. His resolute refusal to talk is one of the defense's big assets. When Hauptmann crosses from the jail to the jam-packed courthouse on Jan. 2, he will have maintained under considerable pressure a dogged three-month insistence on his innocence...
...newshawks President Grant reminisced about begging bread and jam from one of Brigham Young's wives; about the pioneer Mormon himself who "was a great man. . . . He loved little children and I was one of the little children he loved...
...Fujii crumpled, accepting their demands which means saddling Japan with a 750,000,000 yen deficit. Three days later Mr. Fujii abruptly resigned "suffering from a nervous and physical breakdown," according to his doctors, who said they were injecting him with camphor oil. Grimly the fighting services prepared to jam their budget through the Diet anyhow, circulated dire threats of what will happen to deputies who oppose them...
...Senator and now a Representative whose family in the old days could travel all the way to Rochester, 30 mi. north, without setting foot off its own land. Depression has dealt lightly with Geneseo's 2,260 inhabitants, who work on farms or in the cannery & jam factory, or teach in the State Normal School, and deposit their money in the Wadsworth bank. Thriving seat of Livingston County, the town supports two weekly newspapers, the Livingston Republican and the Livingston County Leader. Last week the Leader made big local news...