Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until nominations for directors were called for, the meeting was perfunctory. Then a serious-faced, bespectacled young man named Howard 0. Hatcher nominated President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers. Several staring stockholders snickered. One asked: "Is this a joke, or what?" Replied Chairman Smith: "No, it's meant seriously." Leaning back in his chair, Mr. Hatcher, who is research secretary for the Council for Social Action of the Congregational and Christian Churches, explained: "Since Mr. Martin has shown considerable interest in and understanding of General Motors . . . it might be a good policy to have Organized Labor represented...
Most spirited bidding in the furniture section last week was for a secretaire by Martin Carlin, cabinetmaker to Louis XVI, which Dealer Edward Duveen bought for $40,000. Top price among the paintings: $87,500, by Thomas Agnew & Sons for Pieter de Hooch's quiet Dutch Courtyard. Less costly but equally decorous were van de Velde's Calm Sea with Shipping ($10,500) and Metsu's Woman Cleaning Fish ($14,000). Victor Rothschild's ancestors apparently did not go in for nudes...
...friends has Aluminum Co. of America but some of the warmest are to be found among missionaries. The loyalty of this pious rooting section is as well-grounded in material interest as that of the Mellon family, which owns about one-third of Alcoa's stock. When Charles Martin Hall, inventor of the process which started the company on its monopolistic career, died in 1914, he left one-third of his $27,000,000 fortune to the American Missionary Society and another one-sixth for advancement of education in the Near and Far East...
...Martin A. Evers '39, of Cambridge came second in the competition and becomes second assistant associate Manger. Evers prepared at Cambridge Latin and will be associate Manager in his Senior year...
Officers elected were, David, E. Feller '38, chairman, and Martin J. Pollak '38, secretary. About 15 men attended the meeting...