Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Minister of Food who knew something about dealing with the public, the Prime Minister sagely went outside the Cabinet and hired a shopkeeper tycoon-Frederick James Marquis, Lord Woolton, banker, insuranceman and chairman of Lewis's Ltd., a chain of Midlands department stores. He used to criticize Neville Chamberlain's "parsimony"; when Chamberlain was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Day after Lord Woolton joined the Cabinet Mrs. Chamberlain introduced him at a"Better Cookery" campaign meeting as follows: "Since arrangements for this meeting have been made some body has been busy changing Cabinet Ministers around." (Laughter.) Thin-lipped thin...
...Orleans Times-Picayune, which at long last got the goods on the Long machine in Louisiana, is only an outstanding example among many others of the same type. This is in sharp contrast to the situation in the North, where many large cities harbor only a couple of chain newspapers, with little or no local responsibility. In the North the editorial page is a waning influence, but in the South it is alive and kicking. So it was to be expected that there would be a large number of outstanding Nieman Fellows from the South...
Thereupon Premier Mussolini and Count Ciano punked the fuse of an extraordinary chain of diplomatic firecrackers. Italian envoys popped up all over Europe. Il Duce and his son-in-law played faction against faction, until no nation could be sure whether he was coming or going. At first the Allies were favored. Insulting press attacks on the Allies, particularly on Great Britain, were toned down; so was praise of the Axis. Friendly Giuseppe Bastianini was appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Trade talks with a British delegation were nurtured...
Free Press. Grocer McDonald, son of a Knoxville groceryman, built up a chain of 60 stores in Chattanooga. He bought a dairy to supply his stores with milk, a bakery to bake his bread, a laundry, a tire and gasoline company. He saw no use in paying good money to advertise in the papers...
...another $24,000 in stock, the News was $15,000 behind in its payments to Mrs. Milton, its bonds had been in default for nearly six months, entitling the bondholders to take control. Mrs. Milton's attorney, Sam J. McAllester, was secretary of Roy McDonald's grocery chain. One bleak day last December, Lawyer McAllester told Milton that a sale had been arranged for the News and accepted by the bondholders' committee. Purchaser: Roy McDonald...