Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about to mold what amounted to a new German Evangelical Church. He wanted no trouble, no backsliding at the last moment by conscience-stricken churchmen. The militant Saxon theological students were his praetorian guard. Menacingly they faced the famed Castle Church on the doors of which in 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses-the charter of the Reformation. Apprehensively churchmen comprising the Synod of the Evangelical Churches of Germany entered and prayed...
Though the Synod is Protestant and Adolf Hitler of course is Catholic, Reichsbischof Müller told the churchmen that "Our Chancellor appears to us as a gift from God." Recalling, somewhat left-handedly, Martin Luther's great declaration of the equal freedom and value of all men in the sight of God, Reichsbischof Müller tacked on this Nazi amendment : "Equality before God does not exclude inequality among men, which is also willed by God. For this reason all non-Aryans* must be barred from holding office in the church...
Golden Harvest (Paramount) like many another Hollywood problem play, tries earnestly to take sides on a controversial question without offending anyone. A well-to-do wheat farmer has two sons. One of them, Walt Martin (Richard Arlen) stays at home, marries a neighbor's daughter, begets twins and tours his fields happily in a tractor. Walt's older brother Chris (Chester Morris) goes to Chicago, makes a fortune speculating in wheat, marries the egotistical daughter (Genevieve Tobin) of the richest speculator in the Pit. When wheat prices go down and foreclosed mortgages-without which even a problem play...
Instead of building up its case against speculation, Golden Harvest at this point launches a fantastic compromise. Walt Martin organizes a farmers' strike. Chris cooperates by using his knowledge of the strike to boom wheat prices on the exchange. The farm strike collapses in time to bankrupt him. In its effort to give an appearance of having proved something, Walt Martin is shown telling a group of financiers that the next farm strike will be more serious, and Mrs. Chris Martin seems to have grown more fond of her husband. A few good bits of wheat-farming local color...
...Martin, a Canadian lad, about 19 yrs. old, hardy, robust and healthy, was accidentally shot by the unlucky discharge of a gun. . . . The whole charge, consisting of powder and duck shot, was received in the left side at not more than two or three feet distance from the muzzle of the piece, . . . carrying away by its force the integuments more than the size of the palm of a man's hand; blowing off and fracturing the sixth rib . . . , fracturing the fifth, rupturing the lower portion of the left lobe of the lung and lacerating the stomach by a spicule...