Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of America, got the snuffles and took to his bed one day last week. They were lucky snuffles, for they enabled Mr. Martin to postpone a meeting of his international executive board, at which he was in a fair way to lose control...
President Martin's low state coincided with the presence in Detroit of C. I. O. Vice Chairmen Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman. With them at the Hotel Statler was swart young Lee Pressman, C. I. O. general counsel, who is so thoroughly allergic to Homer Martin that the two were kept apart. Boss John L. Lewis had sent the visitors to save C.I.O.'s third largest union from dismemberment at the hands of Mr. Martin and feuding fellow officers (TIME, June 20). Mr. Lewis was aboard ship, coasting home from a union conference in Mexico City...
Having expelled four rebellious union officers (Vice Presidents Richard Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed Hall; Secretary-Treasurer George Addes) and suspended a fifth (Vice President Walter Wells), Mr. Martin was faced by the unpleasant discovery that a majority of U. A. W.'s 375,000 claimed members supported the punished five. U. A. W. was ready to split in two. A sample of how costly jurisdictional strikes could prove in the automobile industry at the start of the 1939 production season was meanwhile provided in Detroit: soon after workers struck in Briggs Manufacturing Co. (against "speedup"), 7,000 employes...
Grey-topped, placid Mr. Murray and blacktopped, jumpy Mr. Hillman proposed to save U. A. W. by reinstating the expelled officers and having future disputes settled by C. I. O. executives (meaning Lewis, Murray, Hillman). Rather than lose face, Homer Martin rejected "the Lewis plan," called upon his majority of twelve supposedly loyal boardmen to back...
...other 11 representatives from Harvard included Dr. Annie J. Cannon, committee on stellar spectra; Dr. Dorrit Hoffleit, committee on meteors and related problems; Miss Jenka Mohr, committee on nebulae and star clusters; and Dr. Theodore E. Sterne, Dr. Martin Schwarzschild, Dr. Leo Goldberg, Miss Henrietta Swope, Miss Constance Boyd, Mrs. R. Newton Mayall, Miss Rebecca Jones, and James G. Baker...