Word: martin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another cause for unrest in the Chicago underworld was a special grand jury's investigation of thuggeries committed during Chicago's recent primary election. Last week the jury indicted 24 men, including State Senator James B. Leonardo and one Martin Klass, a nephew of the City Collector...
Edward Sanford Martin, 72, retired as chief editorial writer' for Life. He wrote Life's very first editorial in 1883, saying: "We wish to have some fun in this paper and to have it as nearly of the right sort as may be." Since then Mr. Martin has written nearly every editorial that appeared in Life. His last words were: "And another thing! When you are out in the shopping district, do you sometimes get a disagreeable sensation of everything being for sale? Well, this present world is rather too much that way. Maybe that...
...Ernest Martin Hopkins: President of Dartmouth College, under whose guidance it has grown in fame and been impressed by his own striking personality...
Florida is said to be "modernized" politically. Wealthy Republicans from the North have changed many things. But last week, Florida's Democrats demonstrated that they, at least, have not changed. Governor John W. Martin competed for the Senate seat of Park Trammel, comrade...
Alabama's curious Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope. Senator Trammel emerged untrammeled. He beat Governor Martin by some 30,000 votes. Anti-Smith convention delegates were likewise elected. And, in the Fourth Congressional District, U. S. Representative William J. Sears lost out to Tradition as embodied in the 43-year-old daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, "The Little Commoner." A War nurse, Chautauqua lecturer, energetic personality, Mrs. Owen laid stress upon her own abilities rather than her father's fame...