Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That word "smearcast" (Martin Dies v. Walter Winchell, TIME, April 3) is the best word to come out of 1944. My admiration for the person who coined it is unbounded. If you think that attitude is extravagant, please note that words have influenced history...
Cards. Comparatively strong all around. Potential weak spot: outfield. Five of seven outfielders are I-A or 3-A. Helping out: 40-year-old Pepper Martin...
Credits and Debits. Josephson is sure it did. Pan Am pioneered oceanic flying for the U.S., helped design the "Clippers" to do it (although Martin, Boeing and Sikorsky wailed that they never made money selling them to Trippe) and gave the U.S. domination in South America over Germany's Lufthansa, Air France and Italy's Lati. More important, Pan Am charted the transoceanic routes which became invaluable in war. As Trippe recalled: "Why, sometimes nobody in the State Department, or even the Navy, had ever heard of some of the places we wanted to get to, places...
...Martin Dies, redheaded, brassbound Congressman from Texas, vexed by Walter Winchell's sour comments on the "unAmerican activities" of Dies's Committee on Un-American Activities, took to the air to call the columnist a "tool [of the] smearbund," proceeded to do some smearing himself. Under Blue Network rules. Winchell could make no fresh charges until Dies answered his old ones. Dies didn't. They met in the studio after the smearcast, grinned like happy pseudo-warriors. Winchell: "Let's get together and tell some more lies about each other." Dies: "I'd have...
...rubberneck bus en route to a peepshow and yet it may be the most effective pro-American propaganda medium in the country. . . ." In suggesting that Walter Winchell is the No. 1 propagandist-ideologue for World War II, Columnist Fisher may well be right. But last week Congressman Martin Dies, investigator of un-American activities, was planning to put Mr. Winchell under the magnifying glass...