Word: martin
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...followed the horses, as owner and fan. A fast trader, he has paid as much as $25,000 for a horse: Brief Moment, winner of the $10,000 Longacres Mile at Seattle in 1939. He was appointed to the Washington State Horse Racing Commission by Democratic Governor Clarence D. Martin in 1939, and was named chairman by Democratic Governor Monrad C. Wallgren in 1945. (In between, he was fired by Republican Governor Arthur B. Langlie in 1941, and he was refired by Langlie...
House Minority Leader Joe Martin rose amid the high jinks to remind Democratic colleagues that Republicans in the old days never hesitated to cut Democratic budgets: "We did not dodge our responsibility. We cut the budget. And if you can, you should." Kansas Republican Errett Scrivner was more pointed: "Foreign aid, of course, can be cut. Military-some cuts are in prospect. How about agriculture? Will you cut a big deficit of $700 million a year in the Post Office by raising postal rates? How about Welfare? Health? National forests? Power dams? Public housing? Aviation assistance? Civil defense? Business aids...
Before an audience at the National Press Club. Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. made an unusual admission for an expert economist-or indeed any kind of expert. Since the first of the year, said Chairman Martin, the FRB's governors "really haven't known which way the business currents are running." And until they do know, the Federal Reserve will follow a policy of "passive" credit restraint, neither tightening nor loosening the nation's money supply. "We are simply trying to let the forces of supply and demand operate in the money market...
Because of its location in the temple of the Brahmins, WGBH is top-heavy with free talent. Recent shows included lectures by Pastor Martin Niemöller, Novelist Edwin (The Last Hurrah) O'Connor, Author-Ethnologist Oliver La Farge and Ambassador James B. Conant. British Labor Boss Hugh Gaitskell's three Harvard lectures on foreign policy were carried in full. Drama Critic Walter Kerr discussed contemporary theater with Playwright Arthur Miller. Harvard Law Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. completed a 16-part series on the Constitution and human rights only a week before his death (TIME...
...Martin Luther had not been born when John Hus, Roman Catholic priest and rector of the University of Prague, thundered against the corruption of the church under the antipope John XXIII-simony, sale of indulgences, etc.-and cried out for reform. Tried for heresy, condemned and bound to the stake in 1415. he cried: "I shall die with joy in the faith of the Gospel I have preached!" Then the flames flared up, and their light has not yet died. Last week John Hus's followers, known now as the Moravian Church, celebrated their 500th anniversary...