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Vital Statistics. Age: 46 (born March 24, 1902 over a general store in Owosso, Mich.) Ancestry: the only child of George Martin Dewey, publisher of the Owosso Times and later postmaster of Owosso;* grandson of George Martin Dewey, one of the founders of the G.O.P. in Michigan; a fifth cousin of Admiral George Dewey. Educated: Owosso grade and high schools, University of Michigan (1923), Columbia University Law School (1925). Married: in 1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt of Sapulpa, Okla., daughter of a railroad brakeman, a onetime singer in a road company of George White's Scandals. Children: Thomas...
...Glenn L. Martin makes big airplanes at Baltimore. He also makes big statements to reporters. Last week he announced at the Wings Club, Manhattan, that the U.S. has developed a "radioactive cloud" that is effective over a much wider area than an atomic bomb, and "kills anyone who comes in contact with...
...idea was picked up on all sides. Speaker of the House Joe Martin, who ranks second only to the President of the U.S., gave it his official blessing. Send airmail letters, urged Speaker Martin. "A 15? stamp might turn the tide for peace." New York's post office noted that airmail letters to Italy increased forthwith 100%. Martin's hope, and the hope of Italo-Americans, was that these exhortations from the world's greatest internationale, the U.S., might turn the tide of international Communism-that letters from son to father, brother to brother, cousin to cousin...
...work at Bogota, there will be top-flight statesmen on the job. Crisis-harried George Marshall will head the U.S. delegation, with Cabinet-rank support from Commerce Secretary Averell Harriman, Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Export-Import Bank Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. will be there, and John J. McCloy, World Bank president, though not a delegate, plans to be on hand. The diplomatic backfield will be sparked by Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs Norman Armour...
...into his hand Master George Killings-worth's beard . . . and pleasantlie delivered it to the Metropolitane, who, seeming to bless it, ,saide in Russ, 'this is God's gift'; as indeed at that time it was ... in length five foote and two inches of assize." Martin Frobisher, pushing to the northwest,, met a less favorable reception. He rediscovered Greenland (rising "like pinnacles of steeples all covered with snow"), but the Eskimos chased him and his crew back where they came from, "and hurt the generall in the buttock with an arrow...