Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable circumstance about all this was that the men who were shot, beaten, hunted were subjected to that treatment not by an angry management but by fellow-unionists. The strikers belonged to C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America. Homer Martin's recently independent United Automobile Workers wished to horn in on the Briggs negotiations, horn out C. I. O. Homer Martin's men got the worst of it in the negotiations although C. I. O.'s union suffered most of the casualties at the hands of his goons in the street fights...
...union. Nevertheless he was willing to discuss exclusive recognition of Mr. Mazey's local as a compromise. This he and Mr. Mazey proceeded to do this week, postponing the union shop issue until bodies again are flowing to Chrysler, Ford, et al. Meantime Mr. Martin, having been squeezed out at Briggs, announced that 66,768 fellow secessionists from C. I. O. had voted to affiliate with A. F. of L. His figure was almost as surprising as his war on other unionists. If he actually has that many followers he may give trouble aplenty...
...Martin Thomas Manton, 58, former senior judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan (TIME, June 5), was found guilty by a jury of "selling justice" to rich litigants and others for at least $235,600. Maximum penalty: two years in jail, $10,000 fine. He was not only the first Federal appellate court judge ever to be convicted, but the first ever to be tried for selling justice. More than 3,000 cases tried before him in 21 years may be reopened. He appealed...
...show (Hotel St. Regis' gay, fast-moving ice frolic is the best brief show) is the lustrous Rainbow Room with its dazzling night view from the 6sth floor of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building. Suave, refined, pleasantly conventional, the show headlines Musicomedy-Find-of-The-Year Mary Martin, who sings My Heart Belongs to Daddy in Leave...
...Ford Motor Co. has long had only three directors, Father Henry Ford (see p. 50), Son Edsel Ford, Vice President P. E. Martin. Last week it announced the election of a fourth: Grandson Henry Ford II, guitar-playing son of President Edsel Ford who is to be graduated next year from Yale...