Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baseball championship was settled, while 4-H Club teams grunted through their Kittenball tournament. Back of the Live Stock building fiddlers squeaked in competition, while young men in knitted shirts pitched championship horseshoes. The Fair offered no greater sight than the team pulling contest. The first time F. F. Martin of Bridgewater tried to hitch his huge draft horses to the pulling machine (a truck rigged backwards) the beasts took fright when the doubletree dropped against their heels, tossed Owner Martin, bolted into the crowd. The next time they struck the earth with their hoofs until it trembled, tugged...
...delegation of Congressmen about some bills that were failing; signed a bill appropriating $25,000 for the purchase of the late Wiley Post's plane, Winnie Mae, for the Smithsonian Institution; named Robert E. Freer of Ohio to the Federal Trade Commission; signed the AAAmendments; appointed Laurence J. Martin of Virginia Acting Administrator of NRA's skeleton; approved an order to the State Department to crack down on Russia for permitting the Third Internationale to conduct subversive activities in the U. S. (see p. 19). Word arrived from the Capitol that both Houses had passed a resolution...
...apply for reorganization under Section 77b was Radio-Keith-Orpheum. Last week RKO was still in the courts but Paramount, whose reorganization could never have been completed without Section 77b. was out of the woods. First major company to complete organization under the new law was Glenn L. Martin Co. (bombers) whose plans for recapitalization were approved and adopted in Baltimore Federal Court in one month. Last week Editor Max Isaac of Corporate Reorganizations estimated that no less than 3,500 cases had been filed under the new law since its passage a year ago. Consequently Section 77b and corporate...
...mines, street railways, handled the sensational Midvale Steel financing during the War when the stock rose from 290 to 500. He refinanced American Woolen Co. and Tobacco Products Co., launched Cuban Cane Sugar Co., got control of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., organized Submarine Boat Corp. and the Wright-Martin Aeroplane Co. Fat, good-natured, bald, a tireless worker, a devoted family man, Thompson chewed tobacco, underpaid his employes and, as one of the greatest gamblers of his time, discharged them for gambling. He collected minerals, built beautiful homes, but remained dissatisfied, constantly groped for guidance with writers and thinkers...
...from patients who believe that most diseases can be cured by manipulation of joints. Simultaneously 400 students graduated from the six "strong"* osteopathic colleges and began to earn money on their own account. When the American Osteopathic Association decided to hold its 39th convention in Cleveland last week Governor Martin Luther Davey welcomed it to the State, Mayor Harry Lyman Davis, to the city. When last week the Association hinted at holding its next convention in Manhattan, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman telegraphed: "The people of New York will be very highly honored. . . ." The Mer- chants Association of New York City...