Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduating with highest honors, will be able to travel abroad next fall, as holders of Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowships. They are Clement Lowell Harriss '34, of Omaha, Nob.; Gove Griffith Johnson Jr., '34, of Washington, D. C.; Robert Calhoun Creel '34, of Cambridge, Mass.; and John Arthur Martin '34, of Banger...
...made by a political party to pay 105,000 Democratic political election day workers out of the Federal Treasury." Under gag rule Democratic leadership sandwiched in the census bill after all members had been summoned to the floor to pass a processing tax on hogs. Shrilled Massachusetts' Republican Martin: "It is eminently fitting the leadership of the House should assign this pork bill to follow the roll call on the hog bill...
...treaty was in the making. President Roosevelt's immediate purpose in rushing the new pact through at this time was to strengthen the hands of the Mendieta regime which the U. S. helped install in office. Only three weeks ago ex-President Ramon Grau y San Martin returned to Cuba from Mexico to accuse President Mendieta of not keeping his pledge to abrogate the old treaty (TIME...
...named William Neal Winter, a practicing spiritualist with a "control" named Hugo. Asked Washingtonians: "Who really runs the University-Hartley or Hugo?" In 1932 Hartley (or Hugo), ostensibly for economy, smashed the Suzzalo system of Colleges, bore down on extracurricular activities, optional courses. That autumn Washington Alumnus Clarence Daniel Martin (Class of 1906) rode the Democratic landslide into the Governorship. President Spencer soon "asked" to be relieved of his job and given an English professorship. A new Board of Regents granted his first request, denied his second...
...thought he would make a good university president." The Regents swung around the country, interviewed some 50 educators, found none both suitable and willing to put his head in Washington's political beartrap. University of Chicago's Dean George Alan Works was interested last autumn until Governor Martin vetoed a bill to help take the University out of politics by forbidding the Governor to juggle the Board of Regents...