Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highest in its history, more than the 253,000 Republican and 81,000 Democratic votes put together. So Laborite Benson's forces inferred that Farmerite Petersen had recruited much of his support from Republican and Democratic conservatives. This claim was supported by the fact that conservative Republican Martin Nelson, twice his party's gubernatorial nominee, was squeezed out by 32-year-old progressive Harold Stassen. Net result of the hyphen primary was to leave Minnesota's conservatives thoroughly dissatisfied, make it doubly necessary for the New Deal to support Governor Benson lest Republicans get an inner track...
...President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco Co. was Jimmy's first big prize. A Manhattan insurance man. Theodore Martin Riehle, had arranged for the company to take out a $10,000,000 policy on Mr. Hill's life. Hearing of this. Jimmy Roosevelt called up Warm Springs, Ga. when Mr. Hill was visiting there. "Tell father to be nice to Mr. Hill," he told a secretary. "I want to get his insurance." He did, about $2,000,000 worth...
...Angeles Superior Court. Sandra Martin, ex-secretary of pert, pouty Cinemactress Simone Simon, pleaded guilty to forging Miss Simon's name to three checks, cashing them. Chief result of Miss Martin's plea: disappointment in Hollywood, whose curious citizenry had hoped Miss Martin would give in court the name of Miss Simon's male friend to whom she had presented, last Christmas, gold keys to her house. Snapped Pleader Martin: "You'll never know who got them...
...Wall St. law offices of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, but that firm is prouder of the fact that in its 55 years as counsel to the New York Stock Exchange, it never lost a case. Neither fact, however, moved the Stock Exchange's Acting President William McChesney Martin Jr. and the "Reform" party. Their new brooms are sweeping out the "Old Guards" of ex-President Charles R. Gay who were uncompromising toward SEC. Roland Redmond, senior Carter, Ledyard partner, was a great & good friend of Richard Whitney, an Old Guardsman who at present languishes in Sing Sing.* Last week...
Since the appointment was obviously temporary, observers began speculating. Then they remembered. On August 9, Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey will run for renomination in the Democratic pri-mary against former Lieutenant Governor Charles Sawyer. If Governor Davey is defeated, the board of trustees, four of whose seven members he appointed, at a scheduled meeting on August 17 might pluck him the job as Ohio State's president...