Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich, 32-year-old Yaleman William Edward Boeing tired of his family's lumber business in Seattle, hired Glenn Martin to teach him to fly. Two years later, Bill Boeing smashed his pontoons in landing. Unable to get a new pair at once, he set out to make them himself, ended up by building a whole new plane in a one-room factory with 30 employes. It turned out so well that the Army asked for some like it. Somewhat to his own surprise, Bill Boeing agreed to make them. When the Armistice abruptly killed all military contracts...
...witness chair sat one William H. Martin, a slick-haired young onetime Pinkerton operative, now unemployed. In 1935, he said, he was sent to Toledo to work on the Chevrolet strike then in progress. He was assigned, he recalled, to shadow "a man named McGrady, a Government mediator...
...Harrison Parker continued to hound his huge adversary. From his cell in Cook County Jail he accused the Tribune of trying to poison him with an arsenical birthday cake, raised such a row that Weymouth Kirkland of the Tribune's high-powered law firm of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis...
Before Federal Judge John P. Barnes, the high-powered law firm of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis argued that the contract was void, that the agreement was against public policy, that the court did not have jurisdiction anyway...
...Governor Murphy's request, 250-lb. Sheriff Wolcott had made no move to enforce Judge Gadola's injunction. After three days a G. M. superintendent went to the judge, got a writ ordering arrest of the sit-downers and of 15 union officials, including Homer Martin, for contempt of court. To Detroit went word that Sheriff Wolcott was preparing to lead an army of Flint policemen, deputies, American Legionaries, sheriffs and General Motors police to serve the writ. Few hours after President Roosevelt sent to Congress his message on judicial reorganization (see p. 16), the supremacy of Executive...