Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since everyone knows that lottery methods cannot fill the bucket of France's deficit, crucial interest began to focus on the reassembling of the Chamber of Deputies next month. Writing in Le Capital last week former Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin, no friend of his successor M. Bonnet, submitted a brutal analysis of the budget situation, proved that the Chamber can restore stability, but only by wholesale cuts in veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely...
...soldiers, miners and Communist agitators heckled Manager Fred Northcross of Bethlehem Steel's Daiquiri Mines until he shouted: "We are closing down-permanently!" In Havana harassed U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles felt obliged to deny rumors that he was hatching a conspiracy to oust President Grau y San Martin in favor of sly, bearded General Mario G. Menocal, onetime President of Cuba (1913-21). General Menocal deceived nobody when he proclaimed: "I probably have less personal ambition than any man in Cuba...
...Pollux last night chuckling softly over a newspaper item which reported Bishop Manning's refusal to allow the Lutherans to use the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York for a great Protestant celebration commemorating Martin Luther. Pollux was amused to recollect the good Bishop's fund-raising slogan when building the Cathedral: "A House of prayer for all people." The invisible amendment which Pollux missed seems to have read: "Except for non-Episcopalians and all those bearing the name Judge Ben Lindsey...
Directorio Estudiantil The real rulers of Cuba last week were not the sergeant-led army, nor the Cabinet of President Grau San Martin, but a group of 30 tousle-haired, secretly worried young people known as the Directorio Estudiantil All had been oppressed, not a few had been imprisoned and tortured, by Machado the Butcher. The youngest is 19, the oldest 30, and all were students of the University of Havana which was shut by Dictator Machado...
...took over its direction, set up the moderate government of Carlos de Cespedes. Older than the ABC is the Students' Directorate which has no prudent grey-head members, wants a Cuban Utopia here and now. It backs and directs the government of President Grau San Martin. Hour after hour last week the Students' Directorate sat in conference arguing, gesticulating, issuing orders for the Grau San Martin Cabinet to put into effect. Nobody questioned their patriotism or their sincerity. They served without pay, swore to accept no government posts, but it was as though the Social Problems Club...