Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month (TIME, Oct. 24) he spends most of his time aboard the Lyndonia, much of his shore time at the Downtown Club, which he helped to found, in his own Philadelphia Public Ledger building. Such small time as Publisher Curtis has for business, he gives to the Curtis-Martin newspapers (Ledgers, Inquirer, New York Evening Post) of which his stepdaughter's husband, dapper John Charles Martin is active chief...
...Martin, whose life is insured for $6,500,000, is "crown prince" of the publishing family, but there was no surprise in Publisher Curtis' choice of his successor, Editor George Horace Lorimer of the Satevepost. Son-in-Law Martin has plenty to do running the newspapers. Many years ago Mr. Curtis turned the management of all three magazines over to Editor Lorimer. Neither man was present in the oak-paneled board room overlooking Independence Square last week when the resignation and election were effected. The directors issued a statement that "Mr. Curtis . . . wishes to be relieved of the cares...
...seldom lousy, suspected that some other blood-sucking insect might be the vector of mild U. S. typhus. Dr. Dyer, who in his career had dealt with rat-borne bubonic plague, suspected rat fleas, proved his hypothesis correct-first on guinea pigs, next (by accident) on two assistants, Martin Joseph Mannix and Dr. Elmer Theodore Ceder, lastly upon himself. "Where," he demanded as he wobbled home from the Naval Hospital, "Where do they get that 'mild' stuff...
...discussion of tumors at the New York Academy of Medicine last week-that cancer is curable if recognized very soon after its first development in the body. Then it can very often be eradicated by knife (steel or electric), X-ray or radium. Declared Dr. Franklin H. Martin, director-general of the College of Surgeons and organizer of their cancer symposium: "If all cases of cancer could be diagnosed early and treated promptly in their incipiency, the annual death rate from the disease, now recorded as 150,000 in the U. S. and Canada, would be reduced by at least...
...yard high hurdles won by L.R. Martin '36; second, J. J. Hayes '34; third, R. C. Hayes '36. Time...