Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Massachusetts' swart little Congressman Joe Martin, who since January 1937 has been Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, was awaiting only the result of the first Congressional primary of the year in Illinois next week before going into action as the key-man in what may well turn out to be the most significant election battle in his party's history...
Behind this evidence of declining confidence in Homer Martin's leadership was a variety of reasons. Recession has meant long layoffs or drastic reductions in hours for thousands of auto workers. Unemployment is always a severe test of the loyalty of union members, particularly so for U. A. W. members, most of whom are new to unionism.* With it came a drop in dues payments so sharp that the international union took all its organizers off the payroll, asked them to serve on a volunteer basis temporarily. Despite claims of increasing enrollment of Ford workers, the union...
...growing Unity opposition, the U. A. W.'s difficulties are due mainly to inept leadership by Martin and Frankensteen. Unity leaders were alarmed to hear that Homer Martin had agreed to further restrictions on G.M. grievance committees, which even last year functioned none too smoothly, but their chief complaint is Martin's disregard of democratic procedure, typified for them by his failure to submit the G. M. supplementary agreement to the membership for ratification. Last week, though Unity leaders disclaimed any part in it, evidence was accumulating of a drive to oust Martin before...
Died. Dr. Paul Martin Pearson. 66, first U. S. civil Governor of the Virgin Islands (1931-35) and father of Drew Pearson, Washington newspaper columnist; of cerebral hemorrhage; in San Francisco. Calif. At his request his ashes will be scattered in the Caribbean near the Virgin Islands...
According to Governor Martin of Oregon, the southwestern corner of that State "has greater potential values than any other undeveloped section of the U. S." Crammed with 4,000-foot mountain chains, this wilderness has only three connections with civilization-a highway up the coast and 50 miles inland a parallel highway and Southern Pacific R. R. line. Between are said to lie rich deposits of chrome, copper, gold, iron, coal, limestone and platinum beneath an evergreen blanket of several billion feet of virgin timber. To exploit this domain has been a local dream for 50 years but only...