Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After two days of severe fighting marked by heavy loss of life, President Grau San Martin of Cuba has managed to maintain his quavering regime and crush the revolution engineered by the ABC and the supporters of de Cespedes. Unfortunately, this does not mean that the anarchic conditions prevailing in Cuba are at an end, for the San Martin government is still highly unstable, and many of the causes of the present situation are directly traceable to the attitude of the United States...
...mainland; gunboats fought it out with land batteries, machine-guns with snipers, while General Batiste directed his troops with aplomb from the depths of his armored car. Perhaps the most discouraging detail of the whole mess is that there seems so little to choose between Grau San Martin, the present dictator, and the A.B.C.'s candidate, Signor Cespedes, than whom no man more resembles a desiccated prune. The other fracas which cropped up recently was the neat assassination of King Nadir Shah of the Afghans at Kabul, the capital of that peculiar nation. Though in natural sympathy with all monarchs...
...MARTIN RUBIN...
...MARTIN W. HALEY...
...onetime Governor of Wisconsin; Mills Bee Lane, Savannah banker; Frank Orren Lowden, onetime Governor of Illinois; Orrin K. McMurray, Dean of the University of California's law school; Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan; John C. Traphagen. president of Bank of New York & Trust Co.; President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth; Thomas Day Thacher, onetime solicitor general; Quincy Wright, University of Chicago Economist...