Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the retirements of Chief Justice George Ewing Martin and Associate Justice Charles H. Robb opened two vacancies recently in the venerable U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Washington correspondents have been energetically spreading the rumor that one of them was destined for angular, friendly Chairman Fred Moore Vinson of the House Ways & Means sub-Committee on Taxation. Last week Franklin Roosevelt obligingly confirmed the rumor by issuing a batch of appointments upping 64-year-old Justice D. Lawrence Groner to be chief justice, naming as associate justices Cornell Law Professor Henry W. Edgerton...
...elusive news. The only tangible development was the decision by the "unity" group in the U. A. W. high command to make one more attempt to oust President Homer Martin and his "Progressives" at a special U. A. W. convention to be called by rank & file petition. But the terrific backstage struggle for union control appeared so significant that the country's No. 1 labor reporter, Louis Stark of the New York Times, went to Detroit for the entire week...
...raiser of Red scares is Reporter Stark, yet he was willing to put his name to the flat statement that the "Unity" campaign against Homer Martin was "directed from the New York headquarters of the Communist Party and put into motion here through the party's representatives, in association with those who follow the party's 'line.' " Spearhead of the Unity group is Wyndham Mortimer, who neither admits nor denies that he is a Communist but who is known to cleave to the "party line." An oldtime United Mine Worker, Wyndham Mortimer used to be favored...
...union policy the two groups are clearly split on two major points. Whereas the Martin group is planning a big push on Henry Ford, the Communist "party line" is against a Ford showdown, feeling that at this time it would be disastrous. On the other hand the Mortimer group believes that in negotiating a new contract with General Motors it would be very helpful to have a series of short, controlled, harassing sit-downs and "quickies." And in the recent Fisher Body outlaw Sit-down (TIME, Nov. 29), the followers of the "party line" fought desperately, if futilely, to have...
...ambition to become a great violinist. The respectable Sibelius family, however, considered a career as a musician too precarious. They suggested law, and for a time the young composer dutifully pegged away at the University of Helsingfors. But he spent all his spare time composing and studying harmony with Martin Wegelius at the Music Institute...