Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McCuistion's mother, crinkled Mrs. Dolly Crawford, declared that Joe Curran once told her just how Communists would take over the U. S. by passive infiltration into unions, Federal offices, etc. On the same day that Mrs. Crawford testified, Joe Curran sent the committee a letter insinuating that Martin Dies was a liar, asserting with a straight face that he knew of no Communist tie-ups in Red-ridden...
...Curran and the red-faced rage of Martin Dies, New Orleans police asked Washington police to hold Witness McCuistion, charging that he had had a hand in beating and shooting to death a Curranite last September. Chairman Dies roared that it was a dirty union trick, called upon the U. S. Department of Justice to protect Witness McCuistion. The suggestion that New Orleans police had worked hand-in-hand with a C. I. O. union to discredit the committee amused profane, posy-wearing Chief of Detectives Johnnie Grosch. In New Orleans, he recalled his prowess at hounding...
Except for the fact that it was in English, this service one day last week, in Cleveland's Faith Lutheran Church, much resembled a Roman Catholic Mass. It was Martin Luther's Formula Missae et Communionis, a liturgical service which the great Reformer instituted in 1523. To most U. S. Lutherans, more averse to incense, tapers and vestments than Luther was, this Mass might have seemed abhorrent-although its language still informs the Lutheran Common Service...
...convinced liturgist. Alone (so far as he knows) among U. S. Lutherans, he revived the Luther Formula last year, repeated the service to a packed church last week. The occasion, dear to Lutherans: Reformation Day. Pastor Piepkorn wound up his service by reading the 95 Theses which Martin Luther, 422 years before, nailed on the door of the church in Wittenberg...
...Victorian stands to see if this year's Special would be as dramatic as the first two.† Contenders for the title were William L. Brann's three-year-old Challedon, Charles S. Howard's four-year-old Kayak II and Townsend B. Martin's four-year-old Cravat (famed Johnstown was retired last month because of a mysterious wheeze). Challedon had won eight out of 14 starts this year; Kayak, seven out of nine; and Cravat had finished in the money in eleven out of 15 races...