Word: martin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shrewd Illinois congressmen, chiefly Representative Martin Madden, put the Chicago project into the Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of the 69th Congress. It called for only $3,500,000 but if passed it would establish the principle of diversion. But there the provision stuck, a contributing factor to the whole bill's long delay. Only last week was it pried loose, and then by a former enemy, Senator Willis of Ohio. Coached by sage Representative Theodore Burton of Ohio, Senator Willis proposed an amendment, "That nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any diversion of water from...
...interest himself in the financial worries of an individual student. Rollo Brown, in the curent Harper's, paints a quiet personal portrait of the Olympian, finds him to have been "a very wise man, a very good man." And in an earlier number of the same magazine, Edward Martin from the editor's easy chair takes stock of the personal qualities of the great educator: "A splendid man; tolerant, generous, bold: not always right, but majestic in the steadiness of his effort to know the truth and teach it, and make it prevail...
...industrious, however, all roads lead to eminence. Last week Young Brother, plain "Mister" Louis Bertram Hopkins, was installed as seventh president of Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.), in the presence of august trustees, judges and nine college presidents, including Big Brother, the learned Dr. Ernest Martin Hopkins, president of Dartmouth, who greatly enjoyed delivering an inaugural address...
...staff in hand; bushy St. Simon with a book; St. Maurice, pure and warlike, standing under the banners among the soldiers of the Theban Legion and, again and again, St. Francis, friend of birds and lepers, upon whose still and mocking face broods the strange gaiety of holiness. St. Martin, among the holy men, rides on a white horse. He is a strange figure, with his sword and black armor in the company of the saints. He was in life a captain. Born of heathen parents, he turned to Christ and became a catechumen. His parents forced him to give...
Engaged. Virginia Insull, daughter of Martin J. Insull, niece of Samuel Insull, electricity-gas-transportation magnates; to Major William A. Rafferty, U. S. A. (retired...