Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaping Parson. Two years after William Knudsen arrived in the U. S., a son was born to a rural schoolman named Martin on a farm near Marion, Ill. Named Homer, the boy grew up lithe, springy, idealistic, became a star track man at Missouri's tiny William Jewell college, won the national hop, step & jump championship in 1924. Having begun preaching when he was 19, he was dubbed "The Leaping Parson." In 1931, brimming with zeal for applied Christianity, Homer Martin was called to the pulpit of small Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City. Most...
...seven candidates for the Harvard Fund Council are Neal Rantoul '92, Frederick Roy Martin '93, Gardner B. Perry '03, Seth T. Gano '07, Westmore Willcox, Jr. '17, Chapman H. Hyams, 3d '21, and Joseph S. Clark...
...Labor leaders were surprised by a spontaneous tide in their affairs, they did not hesitate to take it at the flood. Pressing his advantage, U. A. W.'s President Homer Martin, with John Lewis' full public backing, last week reiterated time & again his prime demand: That General Motors bargain with his union on a nation-wide basis...
...withdrawal of a few key workmen is just as paralyzing as withdrawal of a few parts from a motor. Overshadowed by the steel campaign, U. A. W. has spent $200,000 on organizing motors in the past six months. Asked last week how manv members he had won. President Martin confidently replied: "Enough to do business with...
...morning 35 years before the curtain rises on You Can't Take It With You, Grandpa Martin Vanderhof arrived at his office building, rode upstairs on the elevator and rode down again. Grandpa had had enough. Thenceforth, he devoted his entire attention to witnessing commencements, visiting zoos, raising snakes, collecting stamps and taking it easy. He encouraged his household to do likewise, with the result that his son-in-law Sycamore took up Meccano and manufacturing fireworks, his daughter (Josephine Hull) turned to painting, then to playwriting when someone left a typewriter at the house by mistake. Grandpa...