Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less talented or venturesome Republican Congressmen, who feel the need for national issues to campaign on, came their leaders with help. Chairman Joseph W. Martin Jr. of the Republican Congressional Committee announced an official slogan: "Let's put America back to work!" Senate Minority Leader McNary and House Minority Leader Snell issued a semi-official nine-point platform. The Republican pledges for any campaigners who feel the need of them...
Heart of U.A.W.'s difficulties is the struggle between the Martin Progressive faction, which believes in strong centralized authority, and the Unity faction headed by Vice President Mortimer and Mr. Frankensteen, which believes in greater local autonomy. That, in Mr. Martin's opinion, has led to U.A.W.'s "wildcat" strikes. Crux of last week's row was clever, self-assertive Fred C. Pieper, board member from Atlanta and chairman of U.A.W.'s newly created finance committee. According to President Martin's enemies, Mr. Pieper had pre-empted most of the executive authority at Detroit...
When they met again, hotheaded Homer Martin had obviously failed to be converted. Standing on his rights as U.A.W.'s elected president and cocking a rebellious snook at John L. Lewis himself, Mr. Martin summarily dismissed four of his vice presidents, including the Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer, and Secretary-Treasurer George Addes. He told six restive board members they would lay themselves "wide open to suspension" if they left the meeting. As one, the six walked out, leaving President Martin & friends in command of a union now publicly split...
...John L. Lewis' hands then lay the ticklish problem of whether to risk shaky U.A.W.'s equilibrium further by encouraging a convention that might either affirm or break Homer Martin's authority, or blast U.A.W. permanently...
This year Ohio's Governor Martin Davey did not appoint a committee, pleaded inadequate funds; Connecticut, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Samoa and the Virgin Islands sent no pictures; the Kansas exhibit consisted of 14 tidy prints that might have been designed in a fastidious recoil from the ostentatious earthiness of Midwesterners like Thomas Benton and Grant Wood. That State committees were an unpredictable factor was equally apparent in the State of Washington exhibit, predominantly abstract, and the Massachusetts collection, which was academic, mythological, and as out of tune with its neighbors as a choir at a Benny Goodman swing concert...