Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fiction, no matter how tough its heroes, must preserve a cleanliness seldom found elsewhere in life or literature. As an example of the one serious book which every adventure writer intends to write some day, Deep Soundings is mainly interesting because, unlike most such since Jack London's Martin Eden, it got published...
...Governor Murphy's State, President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers also ordered a "purge," removing three Flint organizers and transferring an-other "because of unauthorized sit-downs." General Motors has had more than 200 "wildcat" strikes since it signed its contract last winter, and G. M. President William Knudsen announced last week that he would not negotiate a new contract until U.A.W. agreed to definite penalties for violations by its unruly members. Since the U.A.W. record is held against all C.I.O. unions. John L. Lewis dispatched John Brophy from his own staff to survey Homer Martin...
There are three Life Camps: for girls at Branchville, Conn., directed by Miss Lois Goodrich; for boys (8 to 16) at Pottersville, N. J., under William L. Gunn; and a new pioneer camp for older boys (13 to 16) at Matamoras, Pa., under Martin J. Feely. The camps stay open until Sept. 1. Youngsters spend at least a fortnight in camp and many of them stay a month. The Branchville camp runs an extra ten days for a group of older girls (16 to 20) known as the Life Lifers' Club...
...Africa's Kenya Colony jungle Mrs. Osa Johnson, widow of Explorer Martin Johnson, leading a safari to make moving pictures, rescued her friends Canadian Goldminer Phillip Whitmarsh and his wife. Flying to join the Johnson party, they had crashed 30 miles from Nairobi, spent four days without food. In the London Sunday Chronicle, James Allan Mollison, stubby four-time trans-Atlantic flyer and, in 1932, first person to fly solo across the North Atlantic east to west, serialized his autobiography. Week before publication was to start he blurbed: "The world knows me as a hero...
...whose dream became a nightmare is a far more famed Californian- nimble, thimble-sized John Downey Harvey, son of Society Leader Eleanor Martin and San Francisco's chief dandy in the early 1900s. Like Dr. Roberts, he in his day cast his eyes shoreward, conceived a passenger railroad to link San Francisco and Santa Cruz, 80 mi. south. Downey Harvey incorporated Ocean Shore R. R. in 1905. Big sums were subscribed by prominent San Franciscans and construction soon began at both ends under great engineering difficulties. Then came the 1906 earthquake. Most of the subscribed money was never...