Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woodbury Lowery Fellowships in History to Walter D. Brown, of Washington, D.C.; Special Fellowship in the Graduated School of Education to Hope Fisher, of Princeton; Buckley Scholarship to Martin Ritvo, of Dorchester, for study in the Law School; Downer Scholarship to Edward C. Woods, 2Dn., of Rutland, Vermont; Lincoln Scholarship to Richard A. McLean, 2G., of Lincoln; Lydig Scholarship to Jefferson G. Artz, 1G., of Vicksburg, Mississipi; Parlin Scholarship to Irving L. Pavlo, 2M., of Malden; and Vaughn Scholarship to Theodore P. Robie, of New York City, for study at the Medical School...
...band, became one of the greatest of jazz musicians and died in 1931, leaving devotees of swing music to collect phonographic records of his art as reverently as art collectors gather the works of Old Masters. In Young Man with a Horn, the hero is called Rick Martin, and he is presented as a good-natured, hardworking, colorless individual, an orphan who learns to play the piano in a Los Angeles mission, shifts to the trumpet under the influence of some first-class Negro musicians, and makes his first success while playing with a group of college boys...
...Author Baker frankly confesses, her job is too much for her. The music that Rick Martin made died with him; it was improvised, unwritten, spontaneous and "one of these days even his records will be played out." To approximate that music in prose, she gives accounts of where and when it was played and how Rick Martin fell when he played it-but since what he felt was principally a moment of inspiration and self-forgetfulness, her accounts might apply as well to bad jazz as to good. Young Man with a Horn sounds right when Author Baker writes about...
United Automobile Workers' President Homer Martin last week addressed the following letter to Michigan's State Relief Administration: "It has come to our attention that our Flint welfare director, while receiving pay from the international union, has also been receiving welfare from the Emergency Relief Administration. . . . We have asked for and received the resignation of this...
Oregon, Governor Charles H. ("Old Iron Pants") Martin, a retired major general and once a Republican, now 74 and a Democrat, supported the New Deal in Congress, was boosted on a Roosevelt ticket in 1934 from Congress into the Governor's chair. But crusty Governor Martin energetically sniped at Secretary Ickes' plans for Bonneville Dam, criticized the NLRB in blistering speeches, blasted "that miserable" Secretary Perkins, ended up by antagonizing both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. Not averse to tweaking even the Roosevelt nose, at Bonneville Dam last year the Governor introduced the gift-bearing...