Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House committee on Un-American Activities imposed upon itself a publicity rule: no sounding-off by individual members (including Chairman Martin Dies), only statements by the committee as a whole. With its new $100,000 appropriation in hand, the committee hired Lawyer Rhea Whitley, 35, to head its investigating staff. Mr. Whitley, stocky and curly-haired, was in FBI for ten years (1927-37), with a final "nice, easy, restful" hitch in Manhattan. He studied law at Washington & Lee, married a Sweet Briar girl. Un-Americans from Jonesboro, Ark. might get a break from him. He was born there...
...question was finally put in an amendment by New Jersey's Sutphin, who usually speaks for Assistant Secretary of the Navy Edison (TIME, Feb. 20). Republican Leader Joe Martin shrewdly held his forces in hand until he could combine them with 64 anti-Guam Democrats. The vote was 205 to 168 against Guam, and then 368 to 4 in favor of the other eleven bases. Republican Adman Bruce Barton, unable to control himself: "Guam, Guam with the Wind...
...nine journalists now studying at the University, who were selected as the first recipients of Nieman Fellowships, are John McLane Clark, Irving Dilliard, Edwin Wesley Fuller, Jr., Frank Snowden Hopkins, Edwin A. Lahey, Hilary Herbert Lyons, Jr., Louis Martin Lyous, Edwin John Paxton, Jr., and Thomas Osburn Zuber...
...Alfred Reeves, vice president & general manager of the Automobile Manufacturers Association, predicted defeat for Homer Martin. Said knowing "Al" Reeves: "Manufacturers feel that Martin would be easier to deal with, but their chief concern is in a quick settlement . . . regardless of the winner...
...Roland Jay Thomas, provisional president of the U. A. W. wing loyal to John L. Lewis, announced that locals including 268,442 (out of about 380,000) auto unionists have aligned themselves against Homer Martin...