Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congestion of people, the spreading of the Welfare State (with its regulations as well as its benefits) and the inherent petty tyranny of multiplying bureaucrats add up to a frustrating experience for a determinedly individualistic nation. Even so doctrinaire a Socialist as the New Statesman's Editor Kingsley Martin grumbled last week: "Because there are too many people, regimentation becomes unavoidable, and so Socialism's basic idea of substituting cooperation for jungle fighting is lost; it becomes merely the demand for equal regimentation...
Soloists include George Kirklin '59, Samuel Kim '58, and Edward Martin '60. Conductor of the Summer Band, which is in its first season, is Bernard Wiseblatt '57. In the event of rain the concert will be held in Sanders Theatre...
...completely successful character; as usual when Shaw attempts this type, the result here is a second-rate Shelly. Ellis Rabb makes the part into a delicate caricature of delicacy, amusingly undermining any possibility of our trying to take poor Octavius seriously--which may be just as well. Tom Martin is good as the new Leporello; Cavada Humphrey and Robert Rees Evans are adequate but labored as the heroine and hero of a romantic subplot...
...Behind Martin's alarm lay an attempt by easy-money advocates in Congress to use the Government's bond crisis (TIME, June 15) to put pressure on the Federal Reserve Board to go back to the wartime policy of supporting the market for Government bonds. The Fed now buys short-term Treasury bills only. The Fed believes that if it bought bonds now, without wartime controls on spending, it would pump new money into the economy, thus nullifying its attempts to control the boom by tightening credit...
...Treasury announced that it could ive with the bill, but the Fed's Martin urged the Treasury not to let Congress make a start at dictating the independent Fed's monetary policy. Martin pointed out that it would be very bad for the Government's credit if the financial community, here and abroad, got the idea that the U.S. had officially embarked on a soft-money policy. At week's end the Treasury was swinging around to Martin's stand, felt that taking the Metcalf amendment was worse than having no bill...