Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Chicago got back one runaway Insull. He was not Samuel but his brother, Martin J., finally extradited from Canada to stand trial for embezzlement of $365,000 in connection with the $2,000,000,000 collapse of the Insull Middle West Utilities empire...
...Scandals (Fox) is a mass of trivia garnishing the backstage romance of Jimmy Martin (Rudy Vallee) and Kitty Donnelly (Alice Faye), a romance almost put asunder by a Park Avenue hussy (Adrienne Ames). As he croons, Vallee regards the onetime cabaret girl whom Mrs. Vallee recently named as corespondent in a suit for divorce with saucer eyes, but otherwise comports himself with poise and wooden dignity. Pelican-nosed Jimmy Durante fondles a wooden duck, raspingly sings ''My Dog Loves Your...
...winning many a southern vote for Herbert Hoover, distributing anti-Catholic propaganda against Candidate Alfred E. Smith. When Herbert Hoover refused him southern patronage Mann turned against him. tried to block Hoover's renomination. In 1933 Mr. & Mrs. Mann were converted to Catholicism. ¶Died. Mrs. Helen Phipps Martin, wife of Financier Bradley Martin; daughter of the late Henry Phipps. Carnegie partner; daughter-in-law of the hostess of the famed "$1,000.000 goldplate" dinner which aroused the protests of pastors and reformers in 1910; after an appendectomy; in Pasadena. ¶Died- Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia, 75, Dowager Queen...
...connecting with Britain's three-continent Imperial Airways by way of Bermuda and the Azores. That goal seemed one notch nearer last week with the 8-42 ready to fly, with two more clippers under construction at the Sikorsky plant and three more at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore...
...Army planes. Landing lights were being attached. Beacon signals were being improved and a teletype weather reporting system was nearly com plete. Old-type observation ships were being outfitted with artificial horizons, di rectional gyroscopes, new compasses and flight instruments. Work was progressing feverishly on new bombers in the Martin factory near Baltimore. . His inspection trip convinced General Foulois that the Army was now ready to -make a fresh -start with the airmail.-On his recommendation the War Department announced resumption of limited service on eight trunk routes. These routes constituted only about 40% of the mileage flown...