Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telegrams to Congress on which A. G. E. had spent $100,000): "I don't know from which [A. G. E.] company the money came. There are lots of companies in A. G. E. I could not begin to count them. Probably it came from F. E. Martin, head of the treasury department." "Treasury department of what company?" "I don't know." Senator Schwellenbach: "Do you consider a company justified in spending $700,000* for lobbying when it can't pay dividends?" Beach: "Yes." Senator Gibson: "And in the final analysis that money was paid...
...description of "Our Island Fortress, Alcatraz." Two pages later came a lurid account of "Ohio's 'Bathtub Crime,' " complete with a provocative sketch of a murdered woman in the nude. Cheek by jowl with a learned discussion of "Scientific Crime Detection" from Assistant Superintendent H. J. Martin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was the life story of Los Angeles' Thomas M. White, the "Rattlesnake Bandit." John J. Bennett, "New York State's Fighting Attorney General," sounded the war cry against "Commercial Racketeering," while in the penny dreadful manner Editor Lawes himself began a novel...
More light was thrown on the character of that issue as the Senate investigation of Republican Governor Paul Martin Pearson's administration of the Virgin Islands droned into its second week in the sweltering Senate caucus room (TIME, July 15). Appearing with a strip of adhesive tape cocked over the eye which Columnist Robert S. Allen blacked for him last fortnight, mousy-looking Paul C. Yates called up the Islands' men of God to prove that gentle, idealistic Governor Pearson was somehow a blackguard. Witness Yates, ousted Pearson assistant and a prime instigator of 'the investigation, produced...
...biggest thing in Martin Kosleck's life was, up to last month, the time he acted in a play in Berlin with Marlene Dietrich. Some time after Miss Dietrich learned English and migrated to Hollywood, emotional young Kosleck also taught himself English (on a phonograph) and went to Hollywood. As an actor, the young German was ignored by the cinema industry. The best he could do was to get a part in The Brothers Karamazov at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. To while the time away, Kosleck taught himself to paint, did some background pictures for a Janet Gaynor film. Last...
Almost as big as the Sikorsky and Martin transoceanic Clipper ships, the new Boeing is said to weigh 30,000 Ib. loaded, carry six tons of bombs, have a top-speed of 250 m.p.h., a ceiling of 25,000 ft., a range of 2,500 mi. without refueling. Actual performance figures were secret...