Mysterious men comprising a shadow element within the U. S. government, known as " The Syndicate ", are the major villains in the series ; late in the series it is revealed that The Syndicate acts as the only liaison between mankind and a group of extraterrestrials that intends to put an end to human life as we know it.

He received 913, 664 write-in votes ( 3. 4 %), slightly less than he had won in 1912, when he received 6 %, the highest number of votes for a Socialist Party presidential candidate in the U. S. His time in prison also inspired Debs to write a series of columns deeply critical of the prison system, which appeared in sanitized form in the Bell Syndicate and appeared in his only book, Walls and Bars, with several added chapters.

Stratemeyer Syndicate employee Andrew Svenson described the new series as based " on scientific fact and probability, whereas the old Toms were in the main adventure stories mixed with pseudo-science ".

Published book rights for the Nancy Drew series were owned by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and are currently owned by Simon & Schuster.

At Edward Stratemeyer's death, under the terms of his will, all Syndicate ghostwriters, including Benson, were sent one fifth of the equivalent of the royalties the Syndicate had received for each book series to which they had contributed.

The Stratemeyers protected their Syndicate pen names to preserve series continuity as contributors to the series came and went.

With only this, and without access to the Stratemeyer Syndicate archives now held at the New York Public Library, the public presumed that she had a primary authorship claim to the Nancy Drew stories and pen name, Carolyn Keene, who also " wrote " the Dana Girls series.

The decision was made in favor of the Syndicate, stating that they could choose which publisher they would like to go with with subsequent entries in the series.

The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of mystery series for children, including Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift series, the Bobbsey Twins, the Rover Boys, and others.

While mystery elements were occasionally present in these early series, the Syndicate was later to specialize in children's series mysteries.

After that, the Syndicate focused on mystery series aimed again at its younger base: the Hardy Boys, which first appeared in 1927, ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane and others, and Nancy Drew, which first appeared in 1930, ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt Benson, Walter Karig, and others.

For the Tom Swift Jr. series the books were outlined mostly by Harriet ( Stratemeyer ) Adams, head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, attributed to the pseudonymous Victor Appleton II, and published in hardcover by Grosset & Dunlap.

In June 2006, Universal Press Syndicate editorial cartoonist Ted Rall focused on webcomics for the third volume of the Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists series, and included comics such as The Perry Bible Fellowship, Cat and Girl, and A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible.

Mercer continued to voice the one-eyed sailor for the Fleischers, for Paramount's Famous Studios cartoons ( 1942 – 1957 ), for a series of television cartoons for King Features Syndicate, and for a Saturday morning cartoon show ( 1978 ) produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

A series of protagonists-most notably Agrus Kos, a law enforcement officer from the Boros League, and Teysa Karlov, a lawmage from the Orzhov Syndicate, uncover the plots of the various guildmasters, as well as the ambitions of the " secret guild ", House Dimir.

The Dana Girls was a series of young adult mystery novels produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

In accordance with the customs of Stratemeyer Syndicate series production, ghostwriters for the Syndicate signed contracts that have sometimes been interpreted as requiring authors to sign away all rights to authorship or future royalties.

The crew is made up of four unique characters: Jet Black, a former ISSP police officer who retired following a mob hit that cost him his arm, Spike Spiegel, a laid-back exiled hitman of the ruthless Red Dragons ' Syndicate, Faye Valentine, a beautiful amnesiac con artist who awakened into the future world after a lengthy period of cryogenic hibernation, and Radical Edward, a hyperactive and barefooted preteen girl with a reputation as a prolific computer hacker.

Spike Spiegel is a former member of the Red Dragon Crime Syndicate.

The strip is currently distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, while rights for the strip remain with Paws.

The strip is currently distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, however, rights for the strip remain with Paws, Inc.

It is distributed by King Features Syndicate to more than 100 newspapers, and Griffith self-syndicates strips to college newspapers and alternative weeklies.

King Features Syndicate is reported to have promised a $ 1, 000 / week deal, knowing that a Capp-Rockwell collaboration would gain strong public interest.

Ponzi was released on bail as he appealed the state conviction, and fled to the Springfield neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida and launched the Charpon Land Syndicate (" Charpon " is an amalgam of his name ), offering investors in September 1925 tiny tracts of land, some under water, and promising 200 % returns in 60 days.

Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

It is now written and drawn by Ketcham's former assistants, Marcus Hamilton and Ron Ferdinand, and distributed to at least 1, 000 newspapers in 48 countries and 19 languages by King Features Syndicate.

The Press Syndicate meets in the Pitt Building, which is the old headquarters of the Press located in Cambridge city centre.

In subsequent films Mr. Moto works alternately for private organizations such as the Diamond Syndicate ( Danger Island ) as well as for world governments ( Mr. Moto's Last Warning and Mr. Moto Takes a Chance )-- but only when it is in Japan's interests.

Its name is taken from Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG ( Syndicate " community of interests " of dye-making corporations ).

The practice at Lloyd's was to wait three years ( that is, 36 months from the beginning of the Syndicate ) before ' closing ' the year and declaring a result.

The University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate continues, however, to set and mark the GCE O-Level English Language " 1119 " paper which is a compulsory subject for the Malaysian Certificate of Education ( the English Language paper set by the Malaysian Ministry of Education is the same as the English Language " 1119 " paper for GCE O-Level ).

That is where real power is at …’” His columns are syndicated nationally by Creators Syndicate.

The Far Side is a popular single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from January 1, 1980, to January 1, 1995.

It debuted in 1990 and is distributed by Universal Press Syndicate.

Marvin is a daily newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Tom Armstrong and distributed in the U. S. by Hearst's King Features Syndicate.

Pogo is the title and central character of a long-running daily American comic strip, created by cartoonist Walt Kelly ( 1913 – 1973 ) and distributed by the Post-Hall Syndicate.

The tease is followed by the show open produced by Los Angeles-based The Syndicate called Transformation.

* December 30-The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company motion pictures is founded in New Jersey by the KMCD Syndicate of William Kennedy Dickson, Henry Marvin, Herman Casler and Elias Koopman.

Syndicate is an isometric real-time tactical game from Bullfrog Productions and created in.

Syndicate Wars preserves the isometric view of Syndicate, while adding rotation and pitch controls over the view.

Its core businesses includes publishing daily and community newspapers, speciality publications, digital properties, Syndicate content, as well as women ’ s fiction.