Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found Republican solidarity was partly the result of White House pressure, but mostly the work of House Republican Leader Joe Martin. At Martin's request, Pentagon experts worked over the weekend on the $2.5 billion defense reduction proposed by the House Appropriations Committee. They came back with $308 million (later changed to $313 million) in restorations that they considered absolutely essential to the armed forces. Martin presented the list to the 30-member House Republican Policy Committee, laid the facts on the line in cold political terms. Said he: "If we are going to the voters as a party...
...will compete in the hammer; Jim Doty, shotput; freshman Dan DiBona in the high jump; Pat Liles in the broad jump and pole vault; Henry Wente in the broad jump; and Lee Barnes in the 100. Wharton will enter the 440 and Benjamin the three-mile, while freshman Ed Martin will be the lone Crimson entry in the mile...
...Samuel E. Anderson, 51, director of the long-range Pentagon Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, succeeds Power as chief of Air Research and Development. Mild-mannered, high-strung West Pointer Anderson led the England-based wartime 9th Bomber Command, showed worried high brass how to use the stepchild B-26 Martin Marauder medium bomber as an effective tactical bomber. After top Pentagon staff jobs, he went back to command, led SAC's Eighth Air Force and later the Fifth Air Force in Korea...
...Marquis de Portago (TIME, May 20) neglected the legal adoption of one of his sons, Kim, now 3. Legally fatherless, little Kim was last week the object of a private tug o' war that will probably never land in the courts. Racer de Portage's mother, Olga Martin-Montis, holder of the De Portago purse strings, is fond of her grandson, reportedly wishes to adopt him herself. All for keeping the boy and wangling from Olga a settlement on him is Kim's mother, onetime famed U.S. Model Dorian Leigh, 36, jilted last year by the marquis...
Edward H. Martin...