Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Martin Smith of Washington waved aloft $5,400,000,000 as the first year's yield from a 2% retail sales tax and 2% gross revenue tax on producers, wholesalers, etc., to be divided among 8,000,000 non-working pensioners over 60 who would spend $56.26 each per month...
...organizers, money and life into a presently feeble rival, has yet to do much about it. Their big battleground: the South. > Automobile manufacturing, where, as in textiles, A. F. of L. owes its foothold to an anemic minority which recently deserted C. I. O. The Federation's Homer Martin slightly bettered his position last week. Instead of dealing with neither union in plants where both claim bargaining rights, big General Motors agreed to dicker with both when & if they can agree on representation by a common shop committee. Sadly aware that intra-union feuding has frittered away its union...
Died. Edward Sandford Martin, 83, old-school epigrammatist, author and editor, who founded The Harvard Lampoon (1876), Life (1883), occupied "The Editor's Easy Chair" on Harper's Magazine (1920-35); of injuries after a fall; in Manhattan...
Meanwhile, in Houston, Tex. Representative Martin Dies said his Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities had information that indicated a "widespread secret anti-Semitic organization" in the nation's schools...
Early last June Freud went to England "for peace," joined his son Architect Ernst. With him went another son, Lawyer Martin, and his gentle, brown-eyed daughter Anna, a practicing psychoanalyst. In a comfortable London house near Regent's Park, filled with his Greek and Egyptian treasures, Freud answers letters, continues his writing, even treats a few old patients. Every Sunday evening he settles down in the parlor, coddles his five young grandchildren, enjoys a lively card game called tarot with his sons. Always at his call is his nine-year-old chow dog, Lun. During his 16 years...