Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since God has ordained marriage, wrote Martin Luther, it is good for a priest to take a wife. But the founder of Protestantism, who did not marry until he was 41, might be surprised at the latest trend among U.S. Protestant ministers-marriage while still in seminary. Married students in leading seminaries rose from 15% in 1935 to 36% in 1955 to 60% last year...
...fourth time in five months, the Federal Reserve last week eased the U.S. credit supply. To Reserve districts in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Minneapolis, Chairman William McChesney Martin and his governors gave permission to drop the rediscount another ½% (to 1¾%) on loans to member banks, and sliced bank reserve requirements. Thus the FRB released a potential of $2.7 billion in new credit into the nation's money stream...
Born. To Edith Kingdon Gould Martin, 37, great-granddaughter of "Robber Baron" Jay Gould, sometime child poetess, harpist, actress (Agatha Christie's Hidden Horizon), World War II lieutenant (j.g.) in the WAVES, and Guy Martin, 47, lawyer: their first daughter, fourth child; in Washington, D.C. Name: Edith Maria Theodosia Burr. Weight...
...CONTENDERS (278 pp.)-John Wain-St. Martin...
Reider will have little competition in the distances now that Princeton's Rod Zwirner is no longer in school. Although Dyke Benjamin and Eddie Martin are still out, the Crimson's Bill Thompson and Jim Schlaeppi will pick up place points in these events...