Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second successive Saturday night, Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Inc. . . . sent an order to Philadelphia newsboys and dealers which said, in effect: 'If you continue to sell Sunday Records, you will not be permitted to sell Sunday Inquirers or Sunday Ledgers.' That was at 7:30 Saturday evening...
Chit-Chat. In hallways and hotelrooms outside the meetings, an outstanding subject for chit-chat was a circulation fight last fortnight between the Philadelphia Record and the Curtis-Martin papers (Public Ledger, Evening Ledger, Inquirer). An article by the Record had told the story thus...
...This order was obeyed by eleven dealers in West Philadelphia. But in all other sections of the city it was universally ignored except in the case of Clarence Brown, a blind man. . . . At 9:45 Saturday night, a new order was sent from the Curtis-Martin offices, which said in effect: 'Go ahead, boys, and sell The Record. It's all right...
...nation's Biggest Businessmen. The occasion: to collect the first $1.000,000 of a $2,750,000 fund to build and endow a new swimming pool, dormitories, infirmary, library, auditorium for the Shanghai American School. Among those interested in what Principal Elam J. Anderson had to say were: Martin Egan, staff member of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Mo-tormaker Walter Percy Chrysler; Herbert Lee Pratt, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and his Vice President Howard Ellsworth Cole; President George Christian Scott of U. S. Steel Products...
...confused with George Martin, one-time (1918?29) editor of Crowell's Farm & Fireside...