Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went the cork, and Cuba's President Ramon Grau San Martin gratefully drained a glass of champagne last week with Spain's Ambassador Luciano Lopez Ferrer. The occasion was Spain's formal recognition of Cuba's latest government. Spain was the first European nation so to act, though Mexico, Uruguay, Peru and Panama had already done so. ¶Cuba's long-threatened general strike again failed to materialize. President Grau settled himself a little more solidly in the saddle by signing a smart decree. To persuade Cuba's wild-eyed, well-meaning students...
...members of the Council for the year are: president, Richard G. Ames '34; secretary, Atreus van Schrader, Jr. '34; treasurer, Theodore Chase '34; John H. Dean '34; Bradford Simmons '34; Richard P. Waters, Jr. '34; Roger H. Martin '34; Carl A. Pescosolido '34; Richard Bassett '34; Alfred B. Hallowell '34; Edward P. Parker '34; Thomas J. Davis, Jr. '35; Thomas Hunter '35; David W. Lewis '35; Ebenezer F. Bowditch '35; Herman Gundlach, Jr. '35; and Franklin P. Whitbeck...
...system in the captive mines. By the check-off system the employer collects dues for the union by withholding them from the workers' pay envelopes. This the steel-masters declined to do lest it wedge the union idea into their non-union world. Led by red-headed Insurgent Martin Ryan, 30,000 diggers massed outside Uniontown, swore they would not work in any kind of coal mine until the captive owners granted the checkoff...
Died. Charles Edwin Thompson, 63, Cleveland motor parts manufacturer and aviation patron, president of Thompson Products Inc., a founder and first president of Glenn L. Martin Co. (bombing planes); after a paralytic stroke; in Washington. Since 1930 the Thompson Trophy race for landplanes which he sponsored has been No. 1 event of the National Air Races...
Tough Alexis St. Martin lived on at St. Thomas de Jolliette, Ont. to be 83. His family buried him eight feet deep "to make difficult attempts at resurrection...