Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Montreal Spares--Martin Lecavailler, Roy, Fortin, Herbert, Bertrand, Lebreche...
...House last week voted to ham-handed Martin Dies of Texas, Rightist drum major of the Leftist parade, his $100,000 expense money for further probing into UnAmerican Activities. Mr. Dies promptly went shopping for investigators, ex-G-Men preferred. But Speaker Bankhead struck one last minute blow for the Leftists. To a vacancy on the Dies Committee he appointed California's earnest young Representative Jerry Voorhis, good friend of Red Rover Amlie and, since the departure of Texas' Maury Maverick,* leader of the Young Turks in the House. Son of a millionaire, Jerry Voorhis turned down...
...School. Disregarding a White House call by Pennsylvania's loyal Senator Joe Guffey, the President chose for the Third Circuit Court able Philadelphia Lawyer Francis Biddle, former chairman of NLRB and counsel to the Congressional investigators of TVA. To the seat vacated by "Borrowing" Circuit Judge Martin T. Manton in New York, he appointed on his own hook distinguished District Judge Robert P. Patterson, a Republican...
Winnie Winkle the Breadwinner got on a bus one day last month, and for eight days readers of the Chicago Tribune and 140 other newspapers followed Cartoonist Martin Michael Branner's heroine through a series of depressing experiences. She was annoyed by a traveling salesman, bored by a Shakespearean ham, sprawled over by a yokel couple. Many a reader guessed that Cartoonist Branner had gone somewhere on a bus and hadn't liked it much...
...success of Representative Martin Dies at rabble-rousing with his committee on Un-Americanism. Bob Reynolds admires Opportunist Dies. He has seized upon his issue of "isms" in the U. S. and, while liking Naziism better than Communism, he last week announced a new U. S. mass movement based on opposition to all foreign "isms...