Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done up in the usual Empire court dress complete with cream satin knee-pants. Long a leading figure in Omaha, he is credited with having done much to build up the Ak-Sar-Ben stock show. Queen was Eileen Keliher-Jeffers (debut: 1927), daughter of Executive Vice President William Martin Jeffers of Union Pacific...
Into town moved Publisher Martin Andersen of the Orlando (Fla.) Reporter-Star and Sentinel, a 16-page stereotype press, five linotype machines, an INS wire. The presses and linotypes were left over when Publisher Andersen's two Orlando plants recently combined. With this equipment Publisher Andersen began putting out the Times (evening). His backer is Charles Edward Marsh of Marsh & Fentress, a Texas chain which has employed Publisher Andersen for the past twelve years. Most of the old Register staff have been employed by the Times. Publisher Andersen will motor the 550 mi. between Orlando, where...
...last year many a Straus-sponsored bond defaulted, huge losses piled upon Straus investors. Last week, charged with selling bonds on properties whose taxes were in default and first mortgages that were not first mortgages, the company was thrown into receivership. Special law applied was New York's Martin Act which defines fraud as "all deceitful practices contrary to the plain rules of common honesty." Said Justice Alfred V. Norton in ordering the receivership: "It is tragical, to say the least, to compare the practices as engaged in by the defendants with the glowing representation of good faith...
While Samuel Insull was in flight, his long-nosed brother Martin John Insull was tossing on a cot in one of the dingiest, harshest jails in Canada. There was no running water. The meals were terrible. He was not allowed to puff his pipe...
...developments last week included receivership of Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee, model Insull-controlled interurban electric line. The road was unable to pay interest and taxes. Meanwhile, as State and Federal inquiries continued, louder & louder grew the clamor for the return of Samuel Insull and his son from Paris, of Martin John Insull from Canada. Each of them last week received a communication from State's Attorney John A. Swanson: "Revelations . . . disclosed by my investigation make it imperative that you return . . . for questioning. Advise by cable if you will return voluntarily...