Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. K. Ernest ("Kaye") Don, 40, racing driver; and Eileen Martin, 21, Greenwich, Conn. socialite, daughter of Businessman Leonard J. Martin who bought 40 million yards of surplus airplane linen from the British Government in 1919 for $20,000,000 and made a fortune reselling it; in Greenwich, Conn...
This revelation, and a host of others, put a new light on the precipitous departure of Samuel Insull to Paris (from Quebec, aboard the Empress of Britain) and the flight of his brother, Martin John Insull to Canada. In Chicago the state's legal department opened an office to hear the complaints of investors, and set to examining extradition laws. But no criminal complaint had been filed and Insull loyalists insisted that the brothers expatriated themselves solely to avoid annoyance, petty litigation that would lead nowhere...
...news that Samuel Insull had been thrown out as co-receiver of Middle West Utilities, a post he accepted when his system crashed (TIME, April 25) and from which he supposedly resigned (TIME, June 13). The company's bankers and Judge Walter C. Lindley had learned that while Martin Insull was in Indiana visiting his daughter he received a $170,000 margin call from a broker. Samuel Insull met it out of Mississippi Valley Utilities funds. Martin Insull later gave a personal note for the amount, borrowed $66,000 more from the company. The company advanced $261,000 to other...
When asked where his brother was. Samuel Insull, who lives in an expensive ($10 a day) hotel on his $1,500 monthly pension, said he did not know. But the Press located Brother Martin in Anne McLean's Boarding House ($20 a week) in Orillia, Ont., a small town 86 mi. north of Toronto. No sadder birthday has long-nosed Martin Insull had than the one which came last week, his 63rd. He described himself as a "man without a job, without plans, without a future.'' Asked what he did all the time, he replied, "Oh, I take long walks...
...than an old man crushed by circumstances beyond his control, came as the result of a five-month inquest into the books of Insull Utility Investments, Middle West Utilities and Mississippi Valley Utilities by Arthur Andersen & Co.. accountants. In addition to juggled income statements and the loan to Martin Insull, the backwash included the following facts...