Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was bigger news in Oregon than it was in Washington. Because many an Oregon Democrat, including popular ex-Townsendite Willis Mahoney who almost beat Leader McNary in the 1936 elections, was already primping for Fred Steiwer's seat, Democratic Governor Charles H. Martin found the prospect of picking one for an eleven-month recess appointment highly perplexing. The Governor had to step carefully since he is up for re-election himself this year, on the outs with Oregon's left-wing Democracy which has never forgotten that he registered Republican before he retired from the Army...
...years was a corporation lawyer, Alfred Evan Reames. Having been turned down for a circuit court judgeship in 1933 because of his utility connections and for a district judgeship last year because he was too old (67), Lawyer Reames was satisfactory to conservative, 74-year-old Governor Martin on both counts. To the wary Governor, however, Alfred Evan Reames' chief qualification was his solemn promise not "under any circumstances" to run for Senator in the Democratic primary this spring...
Robert Speaight is superb as Becket, because his behaviour and appearance indicate besides the man of God, the onetime parvenu, good liver, and states man. E. Martin Browne in addition to having directed the play, fills with great understanding the roles of the last tempter and the last speakers for the murderers. The nine women who comprise the chorus, the "type of the common man," lend much added power, through their lowly dignity, their hypnotic speeches of vague forboding, and their intuitive understanding of situations that baffle the priests. Poetry and drama are masterfully blended by author and actors
...MARTIN M. STERNFELS...
...Federal tribunals authorized under the Federal Court Reform Act of 1937 to hear cases involving the constitutionality of an act of Congress. Serious, bespectacled Judge Florence Allen of the Circuit Court of Appeals came first.* Stocky, white-haired District Judge John J. Gore and earnest District Judge John D. Martin followed. Since November 15 they had been hearing the plea of 18 Southern utility companies that the Tennessee Valley Authority be enjoined from the sale of electric power and the TVA Act be declared unconstitutional...