Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructor in the hard facts of their situation was to be Paul Martin Pearson, onetime professor of oratory, founder of the Swarthmore Chautauqua, father of Newshawk Drew Pearson Washington Merry-Go-Round. A kind and visionary old gentleman, Mr. Pearson became the first civil governor of the islands three years ago. The hard economic facts among the 22,000 Virgin islanders (93% Negro...
...porch of his Cincinnati suburban residence. With him sat the bishops of Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Los Angeles, members of his committee running the Legion. They had said mass, conferred at length. So effective had the boycott become that two potent cinemamen, Joseph I. Breen of Hollywood and Martin Quigley of Manhattan, were pleased to sit in at the Cincinnati porch conference in the hope of working out some sort of truce with the bishops...
Dean Charles Ferdinand Martin of McGill University Medical School LL.D...
...designed like Enterprise by William Starling Burrgess. She has seven suits of sails, each consisting of 2 miles of canvas, weighing 1 1/4 tons, costing some $25,000 most of which has been handed down from Enterprise. Her 165-ft. duralumin mast was made by the Glenn L. Martin airplane plant in Baltimore, shipped North in sections. When he selected her name, Skipper Vanderbilt sentimentalized thus: "Rainbow is an omen significant of rift, and parting of the clouds, indicating fair sailing and better times ahead...
...York City is waiting for an absolute cure for tuberculosis before it expects to eradicate that disease. Last week Dr. Dwight Clifford Martin, retiring after 20 years with the Department of Health's tuberculosis bureau, said that although he believed in the eventual discovery of a cure, he saw none in prospect. But, he added, "control is a comparatively simple matter if the disease is caught soon enough. . . . Any person who contracts a particularly heavy cold or who has suffered from loss of weight may have tuberculosis. Any such condition should immediately be reported to a physician...