Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MARTIN CONRAD...
Reds & Nazis and any other "unAmerican activities" he may find in the land will be the quarry of loud, towering, ham-handed Representative Martin Dies (rhymes with "pies"') of Texas. With him will work six House colleagues on an appropriation of $25,000. To get his inquiry voted, Martin Dies (whose hatred of communists is his political stock-in-trade in Texas) enlisted the support of Representative Samuel Dickstein (whose hatred of Nazis is his political stock-in-trade on Manhattan's lower East Side). Publicity-wise Mr. Dickstein, anxious to revive the Nazi-hunting committee he headed...
...year ago the United Automobile Workers, their youthful ex-preacher president, Homer Martin, their strapping and scrappy organizer, Richard Frankensteen, were stars in the drama of renascent U. S. Labor and in the crown of John L. Lewis' C.I.O. Since then nearly half of U.A.W.'s 400,000 members have been laid off and U.A.W.'s high command has been riven by a bitter political feud. If John L. Lewis could do nothing about the first difficulty, he could try to mend the second. So last week he welcomed both parties, which had split half-&-half...
...reputedly by Boss Jim Farley, stormed up & down the State denouncing "this gang of political termites . . . boring from within . . . planning on taking over, if possible, the control of the Democratic party organization in 1940." Along with' Harry Hopkins he damned Tommy Corcoran, Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas, Homer Martin of the C.I.O. and Communist Earl Browder as other non-lowans who had unrighteously butted in by endorsing Mr. Wearin. He referred to his vote against the President's Supreme Court bill as "my crime . . . which has brought down upon me and my candidacy this pack of political wolves...
...Chairman William O. Douglas announced in Manhattan: "The day of the crackdown on Wall Street is over. . . . The prosperity of the New York Stock Exchange is not incompatible with the national welfare." As a basis for further reform by the Exchange, Chairman Douglas and acting Exchange President William Martin Jr. drew up a "round table" of Exchange and SEC members to discuss: i) problems of floor administration such as the question of segregation of broker and dealer activities; 2) increasing the amount of bond trading on the floor; 3) commission rate revision; 4) development of odd-lot trading; 5) creation...