Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Thomas Martin Farley, 45, one-time sheriff of New York County; of coronary embolism following an appendectomy; in Manhattan. In 1932 New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt removed Sheriff Farley from office after the Hofstadter-Seabury investigation into New York City's municipal affairs revealed he had banked more than $300,000 above his salary. Sheriff Farley claimed he earned the money before taking office, kept it in a "tin box," deposited it now & then...
...years could be had for a few prayers. Plain people often mistook the meaning of the grant, thought they were getting relief from guilt and punishment by a mere outward act. From the fact that they were willing to pay for indulgences arose the scandalous abuses against which Martin Luther thundered. Today indulgences may be gained in innumerable ways: attending newly-dedicated churches (50 to 200 days), giving alms to charitable orders, visiting certain shrines, performing novenas (nine days of prayer), employing crucifixes, chaplets and rosaries blessed by the Pope in various acts of piety (50 days to eternity...
Four months ago Publisher John Charles Martin, son-in-law of the late Cyrus H. K. Curtis, sold his losing New York Evening Post* to J. David Stern, publisher of the virile Philadelphia Record. Three weeks ago there was a report in Philadelphia that Curtis heirs planned to dispose of the morning Public Ledger, now losing heavily (TIME, March 26). This week that news was confirmed when the Public Ledger announced that its morning and Sunday editions would be merged at once with the Curtis-Martin Philadelphia morning Inquirer (circulation: 210,795). The Evening Ledger will continue unchanged...
Pinehurst, N. C., April 12--Frank Shields today eliminated Walter Martin to enter the semi-finals of the North-South tennis tournament...
Looking like a cross between Santa Claus and Socrates, M. Chéron is one of the few people in the world who was a friend of a legitimate Saint. Years ago in his native Normandy he used to play the guitar while Thérèse Martin, the "Little Flower" of Lisieux, sang hymns. This intrepid Norman was Minister of Finance immediately after Premier Poincaré's famed stabilization of the franc, served in three cabinets and retired in 1930, leaving a treasury surplus of 19,000,000,000 francs. Because Papa Chéron was never...