Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last June the Federal grand jury in Chicago returned a secret indictment under the Bankruptcy Act against Samuel Insull, his son Samuel Jr., his brother Martin, now a fugitive in Canada, and eight others including President Harold Leonard Stuart of Halsey, Stuart & Co., President Edward John Doyle of Commonwealth Edison and Stanley Field of Continental Illinois National Bank. The five-pronged charge was that the Insulls & friends had transferred $2,500,000 from their Corporation Securities Co. between Nov. 2, 1931 and Jan. 20, 1932 when they knew their concern was already insolvent to the tune...
Every summer U. S. Lutherans hold a "Luther Day" picked arbitrarily so that Lutherans may enjoy it in the mountains or at the seashore. Last week came a Luther Day which was notable because it preluded bigger celebrations, to be held Nov. 10 on the 450th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth. Eastern Lutherans, gathered at Ocean Grove, a strict Methodist colony on the New Jersey coast, had the most eminent speaker-Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, editor of the Walther League Messenger (for the young), professor at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis...
...Kidder II, '33, Oscar Sutermeister '32, Vernon Munroe, Jr. '31, R. I. W. Westgate, H. M. Smallwood, R. W. Meadows '32, E. S. Amazeen '31, K. N. Marshall, J. C. Hubbard, Jr. '31, A. N. Webster '31, C. H. Burgess '31, M. A. Francon, Vahan Moushegian '32, A. B. Martin, 2nd, '30, R. H. Phelps '30, E. A. Mays, Jr. '32, J. D. Gordan, Jr., J. H. Pratt '30, L. H. Butterfield, F. W. Hoeing, W. W. Foshay '31, J. H. Gleason...
...crowds. But this crew inside the hall was different. They had in effect repudiated John L. Lewis, their national president. They were angry and suspicious. "To hell with 'em!" was their attitude toward the mine operators. In their midst sat their real strike leader, a magnetic Irishman named Martin Ryan. Straight at him Mr. McGrady directed his harangue, brandished the magic name of Franklin D. Roosevelt: "I'm here acting for the President of the United States and asking you to go back to work. You want to see the truce? Well, here it is all signed...
...news: ¶ Daniel Crandall Green, onetime vice president of Electric Bond & Share Co., became president of Middle West Utilities Co. Edward Nash Hurley and Charles Alexander McCulloch. receivers mopping up the late Insull empire, picked him to operate the great Middle West satrapy, covering 32 States, once ruled by Martin Insull. who is now boarding in Canada...