Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leader of the July strike was a young Irish redhead named Martin Ryan. He was president of the U. M. W. local at Colonial No. 4 mine of H. C. Frick Coke Co., U. S. Steel Corp. subsidiary. His glib influence over fellow workers was greater than that of Leader Lewis whose code activities in Washington Miner Ryan distrusted. He harangued the men out of the pits when Lewis implored them to stick. He was the last to consent to a compromise with the operators. As delay followed delay on the code, he blew hot words on the miners...
...horns of Cuba's dilemma last week were the two terra cotta towers of Havana's elaborate Hotel National. There 400 army and navy officers who refused to accept the student-supported government of President Ramon Grau San Martin, some in undershirts, some in crumpled linen suits but all with thumping big pistols at their waists, were marooned, peeling their own potatoes, running the elevators, making the beds. The guests, including U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, had departed. So had the staff, with the exception of two managers who felt a mariner's duty to stick...
...question everywhere was how long could matters last. President Grau San Martin and his bewildered professorial Cabinet remained in Gerardo Machado's ornate palace. The army was restive, wondering where its next month's pay would come from. The treasury remained almost without money. Tax collection which had revived under the short-lived de Cespedes government ceased abruptly. In the interior, sugar workers were on the rampage. Even in Havana labor was so disorderly that business paralysis impended...
Irritably amused by all this were the opposition politicians, themselves pretty disorganized. When Dr. Grau San Martin went stiffly to dicker with them for support, he first decreed the dissolution of all political parties, then refused to give them any hand in the Government. They gave as the first condition of their support that he resign. Scoring their "impertinence," President Grau San Martin nevertheless had good grounds for fearing last week that he was about to pass on into History. While a coalition of his opponents mulled over an ultimatum to serve on him, President Grau San Martin philosophically announced...
...made money. During the lifetime of Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis it had a fat bankroll to lean on, but since his death last June the Curtis estate has reputedly refused to subsidize the Post's losses. They have fallen on the pocketbook of Stepson-in-law John Charles Martin who owns 51% of the Post's stock. Two months ago Publisher Martin sent his Man Friday, Harry Baxter Nason Jr., to New York to see what could be done. Last week Mr. Nason assumed temporary editorship of the Post, announced a drastic change in format, began cleaning house...