Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dartmouth's Ernest Martin Hopkins: I have had much concern . . . that emphasis has been so largely placed upon what the colleges should do for their men and so little emphasis has been placed upon what these men should do for themselves...
...visited the U. S. about ten times in 30 years, had little interest in the Philadelphia Inquirer when her brother's will dumped it into her lap. Gladly she sold her 51% to the late Cyrus H. K. Curtis and his step-son-in-law John C. Martin in 1930. Presumably the sale involved some cash and a series of notes which the new owners expected to pay off out of profits...
...Adolf Hitler while an army chaplain in Königsberg, marched into the Cathedral escorted by black-uniformed special guards. A straggling 4,000 cried "Heil!" at the altar, which was flanked with swastika and German Christian banners. Dr. Müller recited the Apostles' Creed, mentioned Martin Luther and Hitler, preached a sermon on sin and forgiveness. Six hundred loyal pastors and state bishops attended, some of them giving Nazi salutes. Notably absent were representatives of foreign churches and the Bishops of Bavaria and Württemberg-last two of the 28 state synods which Reichsbischof...
...John Alden Carpenter; a hard, austere Trio by Roy Harris; a crafty Sextet by Edward Burlingame Hill. Critics preferred the things they had heard before-the earthy string sextet of Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech; the chromatic, well-knit Triptyque of Alexandre Tansman; the Canticum Fratis Soils of Charles Martin Loeffler. Carl Engel, one-time music librarian in Washington, asked Composer Frank Bridge if he considered any of the new works worth $500. Composer Bridge, a dry Briton, answered, "Well, Carl, don't forget the American dollar has been devalued...
Eloped. Sylvia Martin, 19, daughter of Leonard J. Martin of Greenwich, Conn. who made $20,000,000 in 1920 by buying the British Government's airplane linen stock and reselling it; and Robert E. Ezequelle, 26, hairdresser; to Port Chester, N. Y. Four months ago Mrs. Ezequelle tried to get her parents' permission to marry, failed. In 1932 Mrs. Ezequelle's sister, Eileen, married Speedster Kaye Don, also without her parents' consent...