Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making one third of all the world's automobiles on its twenty-fifth birthday. A similar change has come over Ford. Henry Ford still rules Ford Motor Co. but he no longer is Ford Motor Co. He says "Yes" and "No," but Edsel Ford, Charles Sorensen, Peter Martin, William Cowling and others are an organization, and the organization makes Ford cars. In this year of Recovery, however, the prima donna of industries still has one impresario of the old school. One of the Big Three, whose 1933 record is the most striking of all, he is Walter P. Chrysler...
...Francisco shipping agent, one Martin, who telegraphed this bargain to the Treasury Department, promised: "This cargo represents all liquor destined for smuggling purposes off Pacific Coast, which means if vessel is allowed entry cessation of smuggling activities on this coast for at least six months. Owners of merchandise will sign affidavits ... to cease all sales in future to smugglers...
Said Agent Martin: "I sent the telegram purely as a business deal, open and above board...
...American Conference at Montevideo (see p. 12), the Cuban Government denounced Ambassador Welles for "intrigue" against President Grau San Martin. In Havana, despite the traditional close-mouthed clannishness of diplomats, Mr. Welles was also denounced by Dr. Fernandez y Medina, the Uruguayan Minister to Cuba. For the past month Dr. Fernandez has been negotiating among Cuban politicians with an aim similar to that usually ascribed to Mr. Welles, namely, to obtain by peaceful persuasion the resignation of Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin as President and the formation of a coalition government which would hold a fair Cuban election...
Director Vidal's two closest competitors became his first aides. Big-framed Major J. Carroll Cone, in charge of air regulation, was a War Pilot, a onetime manufacturer of planes. Rex Martin, directing air navigation, has beetling black Groucho Marx eyebrows and a Mexican bandit mustache, slightly askew, which disguise a gentle, genial manner. His appearance last week was even more arresting because of a towering metal-&-leather collar which holds together a neck broken in a crash last September near Washington. Director Vidal was in the plane before it took off, decided...