Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While his secretaries tried to calm Senor Azana, Royalist Deputy Martin de Velasco taunted "You. Senor Premier, acting like a Dictator, have discharged judges all over Spain to substitute your own! You have...
...Earle Martin went rummaging last week for his old alpaca coat and soiled straw hat. On & off for 25 years they were part of his uniform as a newspaper editor. The coat was comfortable. Tho hat, worn winter & summer (with occasional changes for a battered felt), kept pressroom grime from the editor's bald pate. Now, after four years of blue serge and spotless linen as a Chamber of Commerce executive, he would need his old accoutrements again. He had just been hired as editor of the Cleveland News...
...editor who was once reputed "the ablest journalist between Chicago and Manhattan." He is gentle, somewhat naïve, with a professorial mannerism of peering over the tops of spectacles which are always slipping down his nose. Born 58 years ago in Indiana, son of a college president, Earle Martin began early to prepare himself for the newspaper business. While yet in school he wrote Author David Graham Phillips whom his mother used to tutor in Greek, asking what he should do about it. Author Phillips prescribed a college education, voracious reading, knowledge and use of simple words, unaffectedness...
...Indianapolis News, of which another Indianan, Meredith Nicholson, was editor. There, after college, he got his first regular job. In 1896 he joined the Scripps Cincinnati Post as a cub police reporter. Three years later he was managing editor. Excepting a five-year interlude in Indianapolis, Editor Martin's career for the next 25 years was in the old Scripps and young Scripps-Howard organizations. He edited the Cleveland Press, became editorial chief of all Scripps-papers in Ohio, headed Scripps-Howard's NEA feature service, organized and edited the News in Washington, returned to the Cleveland Press...
...Martin '34, J. K. Mitchell '34, K. C. Mittell '34, F. B. Morrison '35, W. C. Owens '33, C. C. Pell, Jr. '33, M. L. Pruyn '35, J. W. Putnam '33, F. A. Reece '35, J. P. Richardson '35, E. H. Robbins '35, Henry Saltonstall '35, Robert Saltonstall, Jr. '33, H. C. Thacher '34, P. H. Thompson '35, G. J. Thorndike '33, C. E. Ware '34, John Ware, Jr. '34, Nathaniel Ware '34, R. P. Waters, Jr. '34, W. P. Watts '35, S. H. Wolcott '33, A. V. Woodworth...