Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local would remain just as firmly affiliated with the Union and C.I.O. as ever. But hardly had the Toronto peace conference begun when Premier Hepburn abruptly broke it off, charging that the Union's Canadian spokesmen were double-crossing him by consulting off-stage with U.A.W. President Homer Martin and C.I.Organizer Hugh Thompson. G. M. of Canada stood fast with the Premier...
Asserting that General Motors had thereby broken its recent union-recognition agreement, which he claimed covered Canada as well as the U. S., impulsive young Homer Martin blew hot on the possibility of a sympathetic G. M. strike in the U. S. Over the week-end things were tense, but this week President Martin went to Washington to consult with his C.I.O. elders, and talk of a U. S. strike abruptly died down. In Oshawa, however, the strikers by unanimous vote turned down the first settlement terms arrived at by their own leaders in conference with the company...
...election of the House Committee for 1937-38 held Wednesday, April 21, the following men were elected: George F. Lowman '38, Wiley E. Moyne '38, Martin D. Schwarz '38, C. Philip Hammond '39, Paul R. Wentworth '39. One Sophomore will be elected to the committee next fall...
...Martin, the sensitive over-thoughtful boy whose early life makes the substance of the novel, lost his parents and friends at a time in his life, and in the life of everyone in Germany, when he needed them most. He was thrown into the world on his own to do with his life what he could without the guidance of others who might have saved him from the mental agonies which he was forced to suffer. His experience as an apprentice to two manufacturers, his final attempt to escape from everything when he himself was his own worst enemy...
Throughout all his early years, Martin tried to find a release from himself. Possessed with the mind of an old man, and never allowed the joys of childhood companionship, he at last seeks writing as a means of unburdening himself. At first he writes for newspapers, magazines, or any sort of publishing business he can find willing to accept his work. In this venture he finds no outlet, and when he meets the one woman whom he can really love, he agrees to her proposal that they cheat life by taking their own lives. It is only when he realizes...