Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-Semitic laws, the harrying of Italian Catholic Action groups, the reception Mussolini gave Hitler last May, declared sadly: "We have offered our now old life for the peace and prosperity of peoples. We offer it anew." By spending most of the year in a concentration camp, Protestant Pastor Martin Niemoller gave courageous witness to his faith...
Musicomedy find of the season is vivacious 20-year-old Mary Martin of Leave It to Me. A newcomer to Broadway, she has gladdened Bald Head Row and rear balcony alike with her spirited singing of My Heart Belongs to Daddy: While tearing off a game of golf I may make a play for the caddy; But when I do, I don't follow through 'Cause my heart belongs to daddy. One night last week as she sang it, light-hearted as ever, the rest of the cast, sentimental as actor folk are, could not bear to meet...
...turned to lead. He bought and killed off three famed Philadelphia newspapers to keep his morning and evening Public Ledger alive, also acquired the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Inquirer. Before he died in 1933 he turned over management of them to his stepson-in-law, John Charles Martin, who got his business start selling coat hangers to villagers along the Ohio River...
Married. Ruth Etting, 42, famed torch singer, onetime cinemactress and stage star; and Myrl Alderman, 30, her onetime piano accompanist; she for the second time, he for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Miss Etting's first husband, Colonel Martin ("The Gimp") Snyder, is now on trial for attempting to murder Alderman...
...Steel official last week would admit to such plans. But the town of Martin's Ferry, Ohio was so worried about its 1,600-man plant that it appealed to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Four other Big Steel plants (in Monessen and New Castle, Pa., Elwood, Ind., Cambridge, Ohio) have lately closed...