Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grandfather George Martin Dewey, a Harvardman, helped found the G.O.P. at the historic conclave under the Michigan oaks in 1854. Father Dewey (also George Martin) was a Republican editor and postmaster in small (pop. then: 8,000), maple-shaded Owosso, Mich. The Deweys lived in a large, white frame house on the best street in town, but the family never had much left over when the bills were paid. Like most small-town boys, Thomas Edmund Dewey began picking up spending money in his early teens-delivering papers, clerking in the drug store, hiring out as a farm hand...
...sore throat, he decided once & for all that he could not let his future depend on such a fragile thing as his vocal chords. And he married Frances Hutt, who immediately retired from the stage, in time became the mother of Thomas Edmund Jr. (now 11) and John Martin Dewey...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...
...Boeing is converting its three plants (two in Washington, one in Kansas) entirely to B-29 production, and the plane will also be made at the Martin plant in Nebraska, the Bell plant in Georgia. Douglas and Lockheed will keep on making B-17s. Hap Arnold has said that, with the advent of the B29, the Fortress and Liberator would revert to the status of medium bombers. But there is no intention of discarding them on that account. In the relatively short-ranged European theater, there is a vast amount of work to be done not only by the four...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...