Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content with an extension of one year and a promised appropriation of $100,000 (to be voted later), instead of two years and $150,000. His victory was otherwise impressive. Starting as a nobody who became head of the seriocomic Demagogs' Club in the House, Martin Dies had been built up by Franklin Roosevelt's enemies to the point where even critics of noisy Mr. Dies and friends of Mr. Roosevelt did not dare vote against the former. From an obscure eight-year man in the House, with more of Washington's shoe-polish than of Texas...
...formidable new political stature of Martin Dies who, explaining why he had attacked Cabinet members (Perkins, Hopkins, Ickes), said it was because, after refusing to cooperate in his Red hunt, they had attacked him, an agent of the Congress...
Representative Cox: "The Cabinet members have done one thing. They've made a national figure out of Martin Dies...
President Roosevelt, incensed by what New York District Attorney Thomas Dewey discovered about Circuit Court Judge Martin T. Manton, who resigned in disgrace last fortnight (TIME, Feb. 6), instructed his Attorney General to see if any more U. S. judges were taking "loans" from litigants or otherwise besmirching their robes. Only the President politely put it the other way around: where else were efforts being made to "influence" the Federal judiciary...
...forgotten. Father Coughlin ("Social Justice") still radiorates, but not so many listen as used to. Father Divine ("Peace, It's Wonderful!") still operates from Harlem his "heaven" across the Hudson River from Franklin Roosevelt's mother's place. Principal demagogues in the Democracy currently audible are Martin Dies (see p. 13) and Doctor Townsend...