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...them he described the idleness that faces 35,500 jewelry factory workers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island (60,000 in the U.S.) unless the industry gets a measly 5,688 tons of copper, 1.409 tons of zinc, in 1942. Without it he saw at least two ghost towns: North Attleboro and Attleboro, Mass., dead center of the industry in this war as in the last. In 1918 Barney Baruch had not let Attleboro go under...
Eldest son of eight children in the family of a North Attleboro, Mass, blacksmith, Joe Martin began his career 50 years ago peddling papers. He turned down a scholarship at Dartmouth to go to work as a reporter, finally bought minority ownership of the North Attleboro Chronicle. With a sudden passion for politics, he got himself elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. Scotch-Irish, he talked a familiar language in Massachusetts. In 1925 he went to Congress, where he still perches -in appearance a typical small-town New England politician-scrupulous, honest, popular, potent...
...Ring. The House hippodrome was the wildest show. Majority Leader Sam Rayburn, of Bonham, Tex., utterly lost control of his cageful of snarling Democrats, and Minority Leader Joe Martin, of North Attleboro, Mass., quietly turned loose his herd of trumpeting Republicans. Trampled in the confusion were the hopes of the Wild Men of the South to amend the Wage & Hour Act so drastically as to make it almost inoperative...
Joseph Martin. The leathery little pub lisher of North Attleboro, Mass., his heart long set on the Speakership of the House, last week was still an ideal compromise candidate. Able, shrewd, plain as an old shoe, Joe Martin, 55, is obviously a clearheaded, sobergoing New Englander, as familiar as apples and Biblical proverbs, a man who would bring honest humility to the White House...
...shorthand behind the explorer's back. Bill had not known his wife could take shorthand, because he had never met her (except for a few minutes before a football game) until the day they were married. He had called her by long-distance telephone at her home in Attleboro, Mass., to transact some other business, ended by asking her to marry him. As for the interview, Stefansson later wrote Bill a letter and said it was the greatest piece of reporting he had ever seen...