Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denton, John Bousing, Jr. '50 (Manager), German, David Nestor '51, Hubbell, Irawtont Cox '48. Mastson, Robert Ira '50, Mee, Herbert Martin, Jr. Ed, O'Keefee, Richard Michael '49, Nawn, Bugh, Jr. '51, Richenbacker, Williams Frost '49 (Captain), Seager, Samuel Nathan...
Although crusty old (67) Martin W. Clement passed the voluntary retirement age two years ago, he stayed right on as president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. To some oldtime Pennsy men, it seemed that the road could never operate without his tight rule. But this week he is relaxing his hold. He will retire as president to become the first chairman of the board in the Pennsy's 103-year history...
There are two depressing conclusions that come out of the week's work: (a) that so many state and national legislators are following the precepts of Martin Dies; (b) and that so many college administrators haven't got the guts to stand up against them...
...days ago, the House un-American Activities Committee, which Martin Dies commanded in its hey-day from 1938 to 1944, announced that it was going to poke its nose into school and college textbooks. The Committee doesn't plan to learn anything useful from this excursion; it just wants to see if any Bolshevism lurks in these volumes...
...Sunday, University of California officials announced that they were going to require all faculty members to sign loyalty oaths. This institution has been under pressure for some time by one of Martin Dies' local chapters--the California state senate's committee on subversive activities. This group has a much sterner loyalty oath bill for teachers pending in the state legislature already. It is quite probable that the university's action was an attempt to forestall this bill...