Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Ward Culver, attorney for an organization of Ford workers called the Liberty Legion of America, Inc., announced its dissolution "as an independent labor organization" and attributed the action to talks between Martin & Bennett. Garrulous Homer Martin was said to have gushed in private that Ford would be glad to set him up at the head of a union, perhaps confined to Ford workers and unaffiliated with C. I. O. Henceforth Mr. Harry Bennett, whether he made himself so or was made so by the factionalists. may have to be taken into account as a big figure...
Ohio. In his second week as Governor, John W. Bricker (successor to Democrat Martin Davey) had fired 2,000 State employes. Ever a ready trough for jobbing politicos, the Highway Department supplied 1,310 of the dismissals. Politicians normally expect to slip in their followers after economy waves subside, but local dispensers in Ohio last week were actually worried lest John Bricker keep the vacancies vacant...
...American Way (by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart). After getting almost as much ballyhoo as a World's Fair, Kaufman & Hart's monster "spectacle" opened last week with a cast of 250. Against the animated background of an Ohio town, it tells the life-story of Martin and Irma Gunther (Fredric March and Florence Eldridge) from their arrival as immigrants, through joys and sorrows, poverty and wealth, until Martin is killed by a Nazi Bund while trying to prevent his grandson from joining...
Each year on "famous women night," women students of small, coeducational Geneva College (Beaver Falls, Pa.) select a celebrity to honor. The college, which is in the heart of Pennsylvania's steel and CIO area, has thus warmly welcomed such ladies as the late Amelia Earhart, Mrs. Martin Johnson. But it proved too hot last week for the famous woman whom students chose to honor this year-Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins...
Last November Representative Martin Dies's Congressional Committee on Un-Americanism threatened to summon Louise Hovick (strip-name: Gypsy Rose Lee) to testify about a Hollywood party to raise money for Spanish Loyalists. Interviewed in Manhattan last week, Miss Hovick suggested that she and Representative Dies form a vaudeville team. Said she: "With my act and his publicity we could bring back vaudeville...