Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Autos. In the driver's seat of United Automobile Workers of America is erratic Homer Martin, who has steered his union to contracts with all the major motormen save Henry Ford. That ex-Preacher Martin is a better evangelist than administrator is equally unfortunate...
...trouble was that Homer Martin could not get along with four of his five vice presidents, therefore suspended them (TIME, June 20). Last week he hailed them before his executive board in Detroit. The defendants understood that the final hearing was to be more of an execution than a trial, therefore stayed away and swapped charges with Homer Martin in the newspapers...
...members who are more concerned with Depression II than with their officers' funds, the issues seemed remote indeed. President Martin & board found Vice Presidents Richard Frankensteen, Wyndham Mortimer, Ed. Hall guilty of conspiring with Stalinist Communists to wreck U. A. W., expelled them.* Convicted and suspended on the lesser charge of opposing the Martin clique's group insurance plan was Vice President Walter Wells...
...punished replied that Homer Martin had conspired with an anti-Stalin Communist named Jay Lovestone to "control and administer the affairs of the union," exhibited correspondence purporting to prove it. The quartet explained that they did not appear at the hearing to lodge these charges because 150 guards patrolled U. A. W. headquarters. They declared: "It is our understanding that we are to be brutally beaten and maimed, if not killed." In Manhattan, Comrade Lovestone complained to police that "Stalinist agents, under the direction of special experts of the Russian G. P. U.," had burglarized his apartment and stolen documents...
...emergency landing, then drifted off out of sight of the Meigs. But at the end of the week, though army bombers and navy destroyers and submarines kept up the weary search, the subject in the minds of most airmen was closed. The Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small balloons to drop behind her in hare-hounds fashion to show...