Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...JOHN D. MARTIN...
...almost spoiled, liquor men headed by full-faced, mustached Owsley Brown, president of Brown-Formon Distillery Co. and chairman of the Distilled Spirits Institute, penned telegrams to Governor Merriam asking veto of the measure. Joining in the protest barrage last week were the West Coast's two Governors Martin (Charles of Oregon. Clarence of Washington). At week's end California's Merriam still had the bill on his desk, called a conference of objectors to hear their views...
...denouement. This is because, in the interim, each has been touched, lightly as by the warm March wind, by currents in life that invite or threaten change. Seventeen-year-old Catherine (Olivia de Havilland) has fallen in first love with the artist who is painting her portrait. Her brother Martin (Peter Willes) is interrupted in planning to run away from home by an invitation to dinner from the girl next door (Anita Louise). Roger Hilton (Ian Hunter), a diligent and prosperous accountant, has had a first-rate chance for extramarital adventure with an actress. Dorothy, his wife (Frieda Inescort...
Voting 193 shares against the management's slate of directors, but not for Mr. Martin, was John J. Gilbert of Manhattan, younger brother of Lewis D. Gilbert, the nation's "No. 1 Minority Stockholder...
From Manhattan President Sloan issued GM's first quarter financial report showing the effect on earnings of the 42-day strike engineered by Homer Martin's U.A.W. Net profits for the first three months of 1937 were $44,814,000, a 15% decrease from the $52,464,000 earned during the same period last year. Net sales were substantially equaled: $336,850,000 in 1937 as compared with $341,306,000. At week's end, GM directors met in Manhattan, elected President Sloan their chairman, vice Lammot du Pont, retired. President Sloan's old job fell...