Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidents of the U. S. for many years had a good method of getting rid of any inconvenient politician: to make him Governor-General of the Philippines. Like a cat looking at a President, Homer Martin, whom John L. Lewis still tolerates as head of the United Automobile Workers, last week gave jobs to five U. A. W. vice presidents...
...continued his friend R. J. Thomas as supervisor of relations with Chrysler Corp. Ed Hall was assigned to General Motors and to unorganized Ford. To Walter Wells fell parts, tool & die plants. Mr. Martin's two chief rivals-his quarrel with whom almost disrupted the motor workers' union (TIME, Oct. 3)-got special satrapies: Wyndham Mortimer was sent from Detroit to "work with and assist" WPA auxiliaries and aircraft factory locals in the East; and barrel-chested young Richard Frankensteen was given an identical task in California...
...Died. Martin Egan, 66, onetime war correspondent, later for 25 years in charge of J. P. Morgan & Co.'s press relations; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle at Manila during the Spanish-American War. Later as Associated Press correspondent during the Russo-Japanese war he scored a notable beat on the siege of Port Arthur. In 1908 he became editor of the Manila Times; in 1913 became the Morgan pressagent, proving indispensable to Partner Thomas W. Lamont in dealings with China, to Partner Henry P. Davison in War-time administration...
George Phillips directed the Leverett Glee Club, Charles Berger the canon group, and Katherine Hack led the Wellesley girls. Martin Kalman-off accompanied the groups. The soloists were Ann Burnham and Charles Berger...
President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers of America last week told the Dies Committee about Communism in C.I.O., saying little that he has not said before. While Mr. Martin repeated himself in Washington, his big and boisterous union showed signs of 1) falling apart, and 2) waxing stronger every...