Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Bob Allen gave a helping hand to a friend when he got Paul C. Yates a job as executive assistant to his partner's father, Governor Paul Martin Pearson of the Virgin Islands. Paul Yates's behavior in that capacity curdled Bob Allen's friendship into the wrath which exploded in the Senate corridor last week.** Their fisticuffs were a fitting prelude to a solemn Senate investigation of Governor Pearson's administration...
Spring was also fond of forging Washington bank checks which he sold abroad for $10 each. To his special clients he sometimes made presents of bogus Martin Luthers. Repeatedly arrested for his knavery, Robert Spring died in poverty, left sharp-eyed experts the difficult task of detecting his forgeries from the originals...
...October noon 418 years ago Martin Luther nailed his famed 95 theses to the church door of the little Saxon village of Wittenberg, started an explosion heard around the world. Since then very little has happened to Wittenberg, though the town grew to a city, developed a thriving chemical industry. One of the largest explosive factories in Germany is the West-fälische Anhaltinische Sprengstoff Fabrik, in the neighboring village of Reinsdorf...
...valuable is the life of Glenn Luther Martin to his business associates that they made him sign a pledge 13 years ago never to ride in an airplane. Last week Airplane Designer Martin received word that his 78-year-old father lay dying in Santa Ana, Calif. Builder Martin boarded a plane at Baltimore, flew across the continent to his father's deathbed swiftly but too late. Said he: "I felt justified in breaking the contract and company officials agreed...
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