Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louisiana's Public Service Commissioner Martin, no Creole, calls himself an Acadian (i. e. descended from Acadian exiles). But nobody except a jesting friend or a bold enemy would call him "Cajun," a term usually applied to semiliterate or illiterate poor folk of French descent.-ED. No Shorts Sirs: On Sept. 23, p. 13, you stated in your publication that Airs. Franklin D. Roosevelt "spent a morning at her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt's cottage on Brown's Lake near Jackson, Mich., while neighbors with field glasses ogled the First Lady disporting herself on the beach...
Married, Evangeline Davey, only daughter of Ohio's Tree Surgeon-Governor Martin Luther Davey; and Alexander Smith of Kent, Ohio; in the Governor's mansion at Columbus...
...Brandeis Research Fellowship, which was granted to A. Martin Tollefson, professor of Law in Drako University, was established in 1926 on the seventieth birthday of Justice Brandels of the Supreme Court, by friends...
...Engineering School the Gordon McKay Scholarships to Carl R. Johnson, Easthsmpton, Hane W. Kohler, Thus, Swinerland, and Arpad A. Warlam, Budapeal, Hungary; in the Law School the Hvandela Research Fellowship to A. Martin Tolleycom, DeaMotnea, Lowa, the Research Fellowship to George Center, Mennington, Vevsment, and the Fowner Scholarship to Charles W. Calutor, R. S. Cambridge...
...because Great Britain has not succeeded in building any airplane good enough for the job, he last week finally pestered British Aircraft, Ltd. into buying the right to manufacture the famed U. S. Sikorsky Clipper 8-42. Because it well knows 8-42 is far outmoded by the new Martin Clipper, which has three times as much carrying power, United Aircraft Corp. was delighted to get some $500,000 for the sale...