Word: martin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RALPH L. MARTIN...
...long ago, in a shanty on the Blue Bird range, Montana, there lived an ancient, Billy Martin, with a tobacco-stained beard, drawing out his days as caretaker of a disused copper mine. He was full of stories about the great days of the silver rush at Virginia City; of how he had drunk and gambled away his takings; about how his partner, Billy Clark, had been more sensible, saved his metal, gone into politics, retired as one of the country's wealthiest men with money to burn "down East" on rich living, art and suchlike...
What has happened in Buffalo is just the reverse of what took place last fortnight in Cleveland (TIME, June 14). There, the Plain Dealer's accidental monopoly of the morning field was threatened by the purchase of the Times by able Publisher Earle E. Martin. In Buffalo, monopoly of the morning field was systematically secured to the new Courier and Express, doubtless through the sagacity of Publisher-Politician-Sportsman William J. ("Fingy") Connors of the Courier, at whose plant the new sheet was published and whose son, William J. Jr., was announced as the new publisher. Besides the Express there...
...Earle Martin, said oldtimers, knows how to edit, how to fight for circulation, how to jockey a paper into a lucrative advertising position. The Plain Dealer would soon have a rival worthy of its fame...
...often the case with able Midlanders wherever found, Earle Martin's origins can be traced to that hotbed of literati and journalists, Indiana. He was born at Edinburgh, Ind., in 1874, and 20 years later got his first job from Meredith Nicholson, now famed as a novelist, on the Indianapolis News. In 1896 he joined the Scripps forces as a "police cub" under Charles F. Mosher of the Cincinnati Post, whose managing editor he became within three years...