Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some Republicans were even willing to postpone the tax fight in order to get on with the aid program. Speaker of the House Joe Martin announced that as far as he was concerned, G.O.P. tax legislation would not be introduced until the regular session in January. Harry Truman did his part by announcing that price legislation need not have priority over foreign aid. Everyone was dedicated to the great deed...
...acclaimed hero of the Bermuda Sky Queen crash was Pilot Charles Martin. When his big Boeing flying boat ran low on gas over the stormy North Atlantic last month (TIME, Oct. 27), he had brought her neatly down off the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb and saved the lives of 69 passengers and crewmen. But as Civil Aeronautics Board hearings began last week, Pilot Martin (and crew) looked a lot less heroic...
...Pilot Martin, a 26-year-old ex-Navy flyer, confessed to an almost incredible tale of carelessness and poor judgment. He had taken off from Foynes, Eire, 3,600 lbs. overloaded, with two extra passengers aboard, on his own hook, because some of his fares were babies "and they couldn't weigh very much." As the Sky Queen headed west into wind and ice, he kept no systematic check on his fuel consumption, let his crew stand watches as they...
After each exchange, Chairman Thomas, his red neck swelling, ordered the witness from the microphone. The committee then noted evidence of Communist allegiance (including photostats identified as their Communist Party membership cards) ; started the contempt proceedings rolling through the full committee to Speaker Joe Martin. By the third day they had cited eight: Writers John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Albert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, Samuel Ornitz, Director Edward Dmytryk, Producer Adrian Scott, Writer-Director Herbert Biberman...
...ROTC Cadet Captaincies went to Thomas C. Fischer '49 and Phillip C. Assaf '46 as Orcutt F. Drury '45, Lyman W. Smith '46, Robert A. Curley '46, and Martin F. Groeley '48 were made lieutenants and will command platoons...