Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin Flavin, Jr., Carmel, California--Santa Barbura School, Carpinteria, California...
Last week dapper little Martin J. ("'Marty") Durkin, known in his gunning heyday as "The Sheik" and now in his twelfth year of a 35-year term in Joliet (Ill.) Penitentiary for killing a Federal agent in Chicago in 1925, was announced as the principal character in the "Gangbusters" weekly dramatization. "They've got no right to use my misfortune to peddle soap," said Lawyer Irving S. Roth for Convict Durkin, eligible for parole in seven more months. Into court at Chicago marched Mr. Roth, seeking an injunction against the broadcast. Surprised, Benton & Bowles quickly dropped Durkin...
Five months ago Glenn L. Martin, who is anything but friendly to Pan American Airways since they bought only three of his Clippers, suddenly announced that his booming plant at Baltimore would build a still bigger flying boat for an unnamed company being organized to fly the Atlantic. Who, air men wondered, would have the temerity to challenge Pan American on the Atlantic? Transcontinental & Western Air? Royal Dutch Air Lines (K. L. M.)? Onetime Director of Air Commerce Eugene Vidal and friends? Last week the ambitious newcomer was finally revealed: American Export Lines, which operates 18 ships to the Mediterranean...
...sold to Eastern. Since then Jim Eaton has been identified with an unsuccessful scheme to start flying boat service between Boston and Manhattan. Now he is vice president of new American Export Air Lines, Inc.. proposes to start test flights as soon as equipment can be delivered by Martin or Igor Sikorsky. He asserts that this will probably be within 14 months, that Martins will be used on the Atlantic, Sikorskys on the Mediterranean. Meanwhile a widespread survey has been conducted and all foreign governments involved have been approached...
Hundred years ago last week, when Martin Van Buren was President, Brothers-in-law William Procter, who made candles, and James Gamble, who made soap, joined forces in a shed in Cincinnati, set about selling their products from door to door with one assistant. Last week P. & G., now the largest U. S. maker of soap and allied products-with 10,000 employes, total assets of $133.000.000, net income last year of $16,000,000-distinguished itself by making no fuss whatever over the fact that it is one of the few great U. S. corporations with a century...