Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public investigation Assistant District Attorney Martin Wilson ("Bill") Littleton Jr., son of the famed lawyer, revealed he had warned the police: "No third degree. One black eye might ruin a first-degree murder case...
Most impressive flights of the first week were made in one day by O'Meara and Martin Schempp of Pittsburgh. Taking off from East Hill, O'Meara flew 38 mi. to Endicott, N. Y., breaking the U. S. distance record of 10.9 mi. made last year by famed Hawley Bowlus (who last week was absent, recuperating from an attempted suicide at his California home). He also thought his barograph would show a new U. S. altitude mark of 5,000 ft. or more. Pilot Schempp sailed from the same starting point 65 mi. to New Milford...
...faster than the world's record made by Dr. Otto Peltzer of Germany in 1926. Since then, in addition to his exploits last week, Eastman has run another quarter-mile in 47.1, a half-mile in 1:50.9, 800 meters in 1:50 (.6 sec. faster than Sera Martin's world's record...
...Little Flower's shrine at Lisieux, France, where Marie Francoise Thérèse Martin entered the Carmelite Convent at 15, many & many a pilgrim has journeyed. Fulfilled long ago by scores of miracles was the Little Flower's prediction that "Après ma mart je ferai tomber une pluie de roses" (After my death I will cause to fall a shower of roses). In gratitude, and for spiritual love, many francs, pounds and dollars have been given to the Carmelites at Lisieux in whose daily prayers all subscribers are remembered. At Lisieux last week there...
Thomas Wesley Martin resigned as president of Morgan-sponsored Commonwealth & Southern Corp., big utility holding company (assets: $1,155,760,000), to return to C. & S.'s operating subsidiary, Alabama Power Co., of which he has been president since 1920. Known as both an operating and financial man, Board Chairman Bernard C. Cobb will take over President Martin's office...