Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaker Sam Rayburn, Majority Leader John McCormack and Majority Whip Robert Ramspeck will be back to lead the 79th Congress. The man who never quite gets to be Speaker, Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin, was returned easily, to head a leaner minority...
...captain in the Air Forces, he was sent to Mitchel Field to organize a unit for the China-Burma-India air war. There he became acquainted with two brothers, Samuel and Elias Bayer and their nephew Jerome Usdan, thread manufacturers of New York. Samuel Bayer's son Martin, 22, and Usdan's brother Morris, 21, were both privates at Mitchel Field...
Radovich was wined & dined, presented with tailored uniforms and gifts for his wife and son, $7,000 which he invested in war bonds. Twice he saved Martin and Morris from being sent overseas by having them temporarily transferred to his own unit. In January, Radovich himself went overseas (though he had to persuade his commanding officer to overlook a minor leg injury) and played a hero's role in the CBI until his conscience overtook...
...wish to find a scapegoat on whose shoulders we may lay the miseries which Germany has brought upon the world . . . I am more and more convinced that the worst evil genius of that country is not Hitler or Bismarck or Frederick the Great, but Martin Luther. . . . Lutheranism is essentially German. ... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful. . . . The Law of Nature, which ought to be the court of appeal against unjust authority, is identified with the existing order of society, to which absolute obedience is due. . . . We must hope that the next swing of the pendulum will...
First Lieut. Martin Lederhandler, a former Associated Press photographer, had the most vexing experience. On D-day he entrusted a carrier pigeon with some 35-mm. negatives, then watched the bemused bird head off for the enemy lines. Weeks later he saw reproductions of his pictures on the front page of a German army newspaper found in Cherbourg. Under them was the legend: "Photos by 1st Lieut. Martin Lederhandler, U.S. Army Signal Corps...