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Word: martinisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roadbuilder White, Ohio was looking forward to one of the liveliest gubernatorial battles of the year. At the Jackson Day dinner in Columbus, Democratic National Committeeman Charles Sawyer jarred many a diner by delivering a harangue against the "corruption and graft rampant" during the two administrations of Democratic Governor Martin Luther Davey. Practical Committeeman Sawyer's unsurprising solution was to enter the gubernatorial primary himself. Tree-Surgeon Davey, who once enjoyed a reputation as a champion of Labor, prejudiced it when he helped break the strike in Little Steel last summer, has since lost it altogether by calling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Even Number | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...Berlin, jittery with continued crisis, opened last week the sedition trial of Rev. Martin Niembller, who during the War served Kaiser Wilhelm II as one of the most indomitable, hellraising U-boat commanders ever to spread high-powered "frightfulness" for the Fatherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Dynamite | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Inflation of the German mark after the War ruined a rich uncle who had offered to set up Martin Niemoller as a farmer in Tecklenburg. He turned to the relative financial security of Germany's State-supported Lutheran Church, became a pastor in 1924. Ten years later Pastor Niemoller, who threw into saving German souls the same brawling vigor that stood him in good stead sinking ships, had corralled Berlin's wealthiest and most influential congregation for his Jesus Christus Kirche in the swank suburb Dahlem. Such redoubtable parishioners as Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht, autocratic Reichsbank Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Dynamite | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...home repeatedly, finally clapped him into Moabit Prison on the triply seditious charge of ''misuse of the pulpit to vilify the State and the Party and attack the authority of the Government." The longer he has languished in jail the more of a Church hero indomitable Martin Niemoller has become, and as his trial began last week he had potent friends in many lands. At the opening of the spring Assembly of the Church of England last week the Archbishop of York prayed: "Let us remember in silent prayer the trial of Dr. Niemoller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Dynamite | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...Here? The State obviously feared last week that Christians of every stamp would be unfavorably impressed by what was sure to be said at the trial of Martin Niemoller. His seven children, as they crowded forward with their mother for the first glimpse they had had in seven months of Dr. Niemoller, were a pathetic sight to touch all hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Dynamite | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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