Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studying at night, and the violators of Law. Of the latter, most interesting to him were violators of automobile ordinances. With a flair for order, exactitude and investigation he was soon stepping full stride into an almost unexploited field. Last week the same young man, now Lieut. Franklin Martin Kreml, 34, of the Evanston Police Department, organizer of Accident Prevention Bureaus in 15 U. S. cities, opened the sixth Northwestern University Traffic Officers' Training School,* both bureaus and schools being his own invention from the motorcycle days in Evanston...
...year 1822 a high-minded little group of men led by an M. P. from Galway, Richard ("Humanity") Martin, gathered at Old Slaughter's Coffee House in London, and formed the first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In the same year they induced Parliament to pass a bill to punish persons who ''wantonly and cruelly" beat or ill-treated horses, mares, geldings, mules, asses, oxen, cows, heifers, steers, sheep...
...year 1864 one Henry Bergh, son of a wealthy New York shipbuilder, returned to the U. S. from a consulship in St. Petersburg thoroughly disgusted with the way Russians abused animals, thoroughly determined that there should be no such abuse in the U. S. Taking his inspiration from "Humanity" Martin, he lined up John Jacob Astor, Peter Cooper, other prominent New Yorkers, in 1866 founded in New York the first A. S. P. C. A. From the New York Legislature he secured a charter granting its officers the power of arrest and the privilege of licensing dogs, in return...
Kirkland House will open its social season with a dinner dance to be given the night of the Yale game. Martin D. Schwartz '38 is chairman of the dance committee considering the engagement of a big band for the dance. However, no definite plans have been made...
Continuing members of this Committee are George W. Martin '10, of New York, James H. Lowell '14, of Boston, Franklin E. Parker, Jr. '18, of New York, Francis Parkman, '19, of Southboro, and Lawrence Coolidge '27, of Boston...