Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the Board of Estimate over which the Mayor presides came a contract for printing ballots for this week's municipal primary. Martin B. Brown Printing & Binding Co. bid $114,760 for the job, Burland Printing Co., $65,000. The Brown concern, long a Tammany favorite, had won practically all city printing contracts for years. The Tammany-controlled Board of Elections recommended that it get this one too, despite the high bid, on the ground that the Burland Company was not equipped to turn out work fast enough...
...those who accept State or municipal charity. These gave Senator Walsh a chance to say that the Republicans, "having brought misfortune to many people ... are now penalizing them for this mis fortune." The 350 Lewiston "paupers" saw their onetime mayor, Lawyer Louis J. Brann, elected governor over Burleigh Martin, president of the State Senate, by some 2,000 votes. Maine's former Governor Ralph Owen Brewster received his third big political setback. Running for Congress, he was beaten by John G. Utterback, onetime mayor of Bangor, by about 2,000 votes. Republican John Edward Nelson, ten years in the House...
Kentucky. At Pineville a deputy sheriff was killed, a miner stabbed during the voting. Impounded by law for 24 hours, the ballots indicated that Democratic Senator Alben W. Barkley, a Wet convert had won renomination over George B. Martin, oldtime Wet, thus breaking a 30-year jinx against Kentucky Senators succeeding themselves. The State's failure to reduce its House seats from eleven to nine required the nomination of all Congressional candidates as Representatives-at-large...
Taught & stimulated by Professor de Schweinitz at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor William Holland Wilmer at Johns Hopkins, Professor John Martin Wheeler of Columbia, and their compeers. U. S. eye surgeons have developed a marvelously precise technique. Their scalpels are slim. Their scissors resemble manicuring scissors. Needles are feather light, thread gossamer thin...
...East Stroudsburg, Pa., James Martin put down his rifle to chase a cow. The cow ran toward his younger brother, Charles, stepped on the rifle, shot Charles Martin dead...