Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday came a desperate outburst of pastors opposed to the spiritual dictatorship of Dr. Müller. Their Council of Brothers, organized after he squashed their Pastors' Emergency League, circulated secretly a bold manifesto which such stalwarts as fashionable Berlin Pastor Dr. Martin Niemöller read out from their pulpits to packed congregations. Denouncing the Reichsbischof's hand-picked Synod as "an assemblage organized in open violation of the Church constitution," the Council of Brothers manifestoed: "In all responsibility before God, we, therefore, declare to churches and their members: Obedience to this church regime means disobedience...
...Christie's auction rooms, London, a set of self-sketches by Charlie Chaplin, once the property of the late Sir William Orpen, was bought for $18 by Sir Alec Martin, Christie's partner...
John's new love is a quiet schoolteacher, whose job depends on her respectability. Mary's lover Martin, an announcer of the British Broadcasting Corp., has also to be above suspicion. Just once, however, Martin and Mary are tempted beyond their strength. A jealous woman writes an anonymous letter to the King's Proctor. Detectives investigate and Mary's decree is rescinded. Since both have been convicted of adultery neither she nor John can ever be divorced. She would live in sin with her ex-announcer, but poor respectable John would never get his schoolteacher...
...African jungle to Cairo, on a bed, in an airplane, flew Mrs. Martin Johnson, ill after 20 months spent filming big game...
...could blame Glen Luther Martin of Baltimore for beaming with pride last week. Fortnight ago the War Department announced that ten Martin bombers would take off from Washington, D. C. the Navy Department announced that twelve Martin patrol seaplanes would also take oil this month for a 7,700-mi. flight up the coast from San Diego, Calif, to Dutch Harbor. Alaska, and return. Simultaneously the War Department awarded proud Mr. Martin a $3,195,450 contract to build for the Army Air Corps 81 more of his famed "YB" bombers-most formidable weapon yet developed for aerial defense...