Word: martin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mary McCormic, soprano, one-time protegee of Mary Garden, and William Martin, tenor, onetime (1921) mainstay of the Harvard Glee Club, broke a precedent last week in Paris. They were the first natives of the U. S. ever to appear in leading roles at the National Opera. They sang well the roles of Marguerite and Faust, respectively, in Charles Francois Gounod's mighty Faust...
...President Coolidge listened attentively to cattlemen who called to urge the extension of co-operative marketing to the cattle industry. Paul E. Martin, president of the Western Stock Marketing Association said that the co-operative plan was "not a radical proposition," as it did not involve federal control of prices. He said that President Coolidge, while not committing himself to Government cattle-aid, appeared "sympathetic." ¶The President informed newspaper correspondents that he saw no need for a special flood session of Congress. The President has issued this information at frequent periods during the past several weeks...
...made his sermon timely by blaming the idea of such unions on the Soviets. The present diplomatic separation between Great Britain and the Soviets, he said, the U. S. unanimously endorsed. Dr. Cadman, a less intense, a more mundane orator, had quips and fancies to offer at St. Martin's Church in Trafalgar Square, London. He opened a "question box," a sort of forum during which he offered to answer pontifically questions thrown at him viva voce. Verbally he did what he has been doing in the columns of the New York Herald Tribune* for more than a year...
...satisfaction naturally resulting from the securing of a million-and-a-half dollar contract, Glenn L. Martin had also the personal satisfaction of having built a plane with features that Navy experts had said could not be successfully worked out. Seeking the Navy contract, Mr. Martin had designed a plane which, using a Pratt & Whitney Co. air-cooled motor, could carry four men, bombs or a torpedo to the weight of one ton, and yet have a ceiling* of 12,500 feet and make 120 miles an hour with a flying range of 800 miles. Naval experts refused to authorize...
After the success of his demonstration plane, Mr. Martin said that the performance of its air-cooled motor had made the water-cooled motor "obsolete" for aircraft. Air-cooled (Wright Whirlwind) motors have been used on the Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd transatlantic flights and on the flight to Honolulu...