Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just behind and to his left was Cordell Hull. In semicircle before him sat Vice President Garner, fresh from Texas; Speaker Bankhead of the House; "Dear Alben" Barkley and the President's actual captain in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes; Republican Floor Leaders McNary (Senate) and Joe Martin (House); G. O. P.'s Alf Landon, and his 1936 running mate, flattered Frank Knox of Chicago. To them Franklin Roosevelt forecast a long and widening war, hammered home that the longer the war, the greater the danger to the U. S., hence the U. S. should try to shorten...
...opens up a new era in good feeling between the village and Mr. Rockefeller.'' said Mayor Edward A. Martin, hastily accepting these terms...
...order German troops into the Rhineland, Fritsch led a clique of officers who opposed the move, and Hitler's reputed pledge to commit suicide if the bluff failed was said to have been given him. Next tiff between the two occurred when good Protestant Fritsch hotly defended Pastor Martin Niembller, who was being hounded by the Nazis.* In 1938 it was Fritsch who carried straight to Hitler himself the class-conscious Army's protest against Minister of War Marshal Werner von Blomberg's marriageto his stenographer. In the purge that followed both Blomberg and Fritsch lost their...
...Poloists Pete Bostwick, Bobby Gerry, Ebby Gerry and Eric Tyrrell-Martin of England (entered as Bostwick Field): the U. S. Open Polo Championship; defeating Jock Whitney's Greentree team (Peter Grace, Bob Skene of Australia, Tommy Hitchcock and Jock Whitney) in the final, 8-to-7; at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club...
...Martin and Douglas are working on 315 bombers for France, Lockheed has turned out about 6.5% of its 250-ship bomber order for Britain, and only North American had nearly completed its foreign orders (basic trainers and combat ships for France and England...