Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collected about-midnight downtown to repel the invasion, but fortunately the guns were put away at dawn without being used. The reception those first Pontiac unionists received from the ''shotgun brigade" probably had as much to do with the abandonment of the march to Monroe as Homer Martin's honeyed words, for they returned to UAW headquarters with information that Monroe citizens were waiting for them...
...slightly stilted jollification for some of the divisions in the party were already too deep to be healed by such simple means, but the President guffawed at the Negro stories of bumbling Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, heartily first-named hundreds of Congressmen. Representative Martin Dies of Texas inducted the President into the Demagogues Club, asking him to promise: to favor all appropriation bills and oppose all taxation bills; not to harm his chances for a third term; never to be consistent even though sorely tempted to be so; not to submit controversial legislation to Congress. Applause...
...scholarly Alvin Martin Ulbrickson the rise of Washington on the water is a matter of lifelong personal interest. He was born within sight of the Husky boathouse four years before the late famed Hiram Conibear became crew coach in 1907. He grew tough rowing daily two miles across Lake Washington to and from high school in Seattle. Entering Washington in 1922, he at once turned out for crew, rowed in the freshman shell that took second place at Poughkeepsie the following spring. Sophomore year he stroked the Washington varsity to victory at Poughkeepsie. He captained Coach Rusty Callow...
...Anton Julius Carlson ("Grand old man" of physiology at the University of Chicago) and William King Gregory (paleontologist of Columbia University and Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History). Since the last issue in 1932 three valued advisers died: Dr. Elihu Thomson, patriarch of General Electric Co.; Dr. Martin Dewey, onetime president of the American Dental Association, and President Maynard Shipley of the Science League of America. But Editor Katterfeld was happy to announce the acquisition of a new bigwig: the Carnegie Institution's Dr. Riddle...
...large section of the British public has not yet grown used to the figures. Year ago the British Medical Association moved out of the building and the Government of Southern Rhodesia moved in. Immediately Rhodesian High Commissioner Stephen Martin Lanigan O'Keeffe tried to have the statues removed, to the rage of Sculptor Epstein and esthetes in general. Artist Richard Sickert resigned from the Royal Academy because that solemn body refused to sponsor a public appeal for the statues' preservation, and with all the hullabaloo the move to oust the statues was quietly dropped...