Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces, wouldn't say yes and wouldn't say no. But he was betraying a certain quiet fascination with the idea of being governor of his old home state. The Democrats badly needed a candidate like Spaatz. It was almost certain that popular Republican Governor Edward Martin would challenge blustering Democratic Boss Joe Guffey for his 11-year-old seat in the U.S. Senate. This would leave either Chief Justice George W. Maxey of the State Supreme Court, or Lieut. Governor John C. Bell Jr., scion of a Philadelphia Main Line family, free to run for governor. Even...
...name of Martin Bormann suddenly popped into the news from Germany last week. It was reported, discussed and then denied, that the man Hitler chose to witness his political will had finally been found in the British zone. He was wanted in the prisoners' dock at Nürnberg. In this glaring end of Naziism, as in its dark beginnings, Martin Bormann was still a shadowy figure...
...Martin Luther, a gigantic incarnation of the German spirit, was exceptionally musical. I frankly confess that I do not love him. ... He was a liberating hero-but in the German style, for he knew nothing of liberty. I am not speaking now of the liberty of the Christian but of political liberty, the liberty of the citizen-this liberty not only left him cold, but its impulses and demands were deeply repugnant to him. . . . Luther hated the peasant revolt which ... if successful, would have given a happier turn to German history, a turn toward liberty. . . . He told the princes that...
American's order put Convair almost abreast of Baltimore's Glenn L. Martin Co., which so far has orders for 105 of its Model 202s. Convair turned the trick by offering its faster plane (300 miles an hour v. 270 for Martin's 202) to American for $180,000 each...
Died. Thomas J. Martin, 64, New York City detective who liked chocolate ice cream, scorned the "looking-glass detective work" of fictional sleuths, solved or helped solve many a notable and grisly murder (James Masterson, Helen Clevenger, the Snyder-Gray case); after a heart attack; in Queens...