Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following an audience with Superintendent of Police Martin H. King, members of the Committee issued a call for affidavits and statements to support the charges that police were rough in their handling of the spectators. King reques- ted the Committee to make a report in writing and have the statements sworn before a Notary Public...
...much building but little art. To while away time when he was not designing little gold frames or trinkets, Henry Raeburn began to paint miniatures. To his gratification, and to Goldsmith Gilliland's who shared the profits, they sold. His brother thereupon sent him to one David Martin, Edinburgh's leading painter, to copy canvases. When he was 21. Henry Raeburn painted his first portrait, of George Chalmers of Pittencrieff. seated against a conventional curtain with ruins out the window. The chair was badly out of line. When he was 22 he painted Anns Edgar, widow of Count...
...Commission files, some were privately sold, some will take years to peddle. The rest gathers dust in corporation vaults. The three most notable cases of new industrial financing under the Securities Act were: American Water Works & Electric for $15,000,000; Mathieson Alkali for $6,232,000; Glenn L. Martin Co. for $3,250,000. Investment trust stock accounts for more than half the registrations to date. The liquor industry is in second place, with mining third. The Commission has held up 43 issues offered for registration, due to their promoters' failure to supply all the facts & figures...
...young motion picture actress, recuperating on the Riviera, meets Richard Diver, his wife Nicole, and their satellites. Among these expatriate Americans "promenading insouciantly upon the national prosperity" are Tommy Barban, an adventurer who has worn the uniform of many nations and is obviously in love with Nicole; Abe Martin, once a musician; the Mckisces who are writing a novel. These swarm about the Divers and gain what stability they have from them, for Nicole is not only beautiful and charming but a successful hostess of her hilltop villa and Dick Diver is handsome and gay, and claims...
...giving the world a new standard of aircraft performance. To him went the award for "successful pioneering and achievement in aircraft manufacture and air transportation." Son of a wealthy Michigan lumberman, "Bill" Boeing went to Yale, left to learn the logging business. Taught how to fly by Glenn L. Martin in 1915, he bought a machine, decided he could build a better one. In Seattle he established a one-room factory with 20 employes. Today, with more than 1,000 employes, his plane factory is one of the world's largest, has produced 53 types of military and commercial...