Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First visitor at the "Little White House" at Warm Springs was U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Sumner Welles, who had flown up from Havana. For weeks President Grau San Martin had been agitating the removal of Mr. Welles, on the grounds that his sympathies still lay with the de Cespedes regime. Following the U. S. precedent of never removing an envoy under fire without a policy change, President Roosevelt after a five-hour conference persuaded Mr. Welles to return to his post after a quick trip to Washington to see Acting Secretary of State Phillips...
Saybrook Lineup: Steward (Crawley), i.e., Train. l.t.; Tanfey (Martin), l.g.; Hall, r.; Barker, r.g.; Walden, r,t.: Bailey (Myer), r.e.: Kennedy, q.b.: Jackson (Pinkham), l.h.b.; Highfield (Vincent), r.h.b.: Ferguson...
Doctor Monica (adapted by Laura Walker from the Polish of Marja M. Szczepkowska; Robert Martin, producer). The oval, heavy-eyed face of Alia Nazimova is now lined and pouched with old hysterias. Her mouth pulls naturally down at the corners. Her pictures make her look either like the bedraggled murderess at the scene of the crime or like Mary, Queen of Scots. Yet the baroque stumblings, wrist-wavings, jaw-droppings, head-wagglings with which Miss Nazimova documents Doctor Monica seriously involved Manhattan audiences in a play that should have been a dull and outdated feminist tract...
...fault on our part. We did all we could and lost." C. To the attempt to discover whether mosquitoes were the carriers of the St. Louis encephalitis (sleeping sickness) epidemic by letting them bite ten short-term convicts' in Jackson, Miss.: pardons from Mississippi's Governor Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner for two of the volunteers, suspended sentences for the rest...
Playwright Black begins her tender drama with the children's party, during which Martin evidences his desire to ''spy'' on grownups. In the next scene, pitched 20 years into the future, Martin gets his wish. During a weekend party given by his now adult companions, the cook reports that a funny kind of a man has appeared at her kitchen asking for cake. The man, Martin (James Bell), is brought in. He captivates the company with his ingenuousness, his embarrassing candor about the most personal matters, his in cessant hunger. More than anyone else, Phyllis...