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...Willis. Goaded by the pro-Hoover Scripps-Howard newspapers, of which there are six in Ohio, Candidate Willis enlivened the week by crying out at Columbus: "In these times we hear much of chains-chain broadcasting, chain motion pictures, chain stores, chain newspapers, chains in international trade. The fact is, under the chain system . . . the great middle class of our people face all the time greater difficulties in maintaining its independent existence. . . . Since when has the Republican Party come to the place where its candidates are to be dictated by a chain of newspapers that have never supported the Republican...
...Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere, brother and successor to the late famed Lord Northcliffe, heads the new group. He announced, last week, that it will exploit the news service of his Daily Mail and the picture service of his Daily Mirror by enlarging both to serve a to-be-founded chain of afternoon papers in Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow. Thus Lord Rothermere proclaims that he will enter cutthroat competition with the numerous afternoon newspapers already owned in the provinces by the famed Berry brothers (TIME...
...ascertain the presence of the gold chalice, inset with jewels, which the Catholics of Baltimore had given to the late Cardinal Gibbons on the 50th anniversary of his ordination (1918), also, the presence of the diamond-studded handle to another chalice, the gold cross of Archbishop Curley's chain, his watch, and $90 in currency. These things were not, as they should have been, inside the safe. A thief or vandal had "jimmied" its door and taken them away...
...rapid tempo: the ideas set down as dogmas in a scientific textbook "brought up to the minute" a decade ago are a laughingstock now. The actual accomplishments of Science are tangible enough, but the reasoning used to explain them today merely forms a link in an endless chain of fallacies tomorrow...
...Waiving chain store rivals, President Everett told of the wares of his chain stores: "We are selling in our chain stores merchandise that is not handled in a national way by any other concern" (tires, beds, radios, stoves, sporting goods...