Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday & the Day Before. In the wet, early morning, thousands thronged Bonn's churches for special services. Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin and Brandenburg, a steadfast antitotalitarian, told an overflow congregation in the Martin Luther Church: "We must break our ties with the day before yesterday, for it contained the seed that became the curse of yesterday. Let us create a new day in which God's will prevails." By "the day before yesterday" he meant the Weimar republic...
...sole trustee, Gray sometimes takes extraordinary measures to insure something of the free discussion that competing newspapers would bring to Winston-Salem. A moderate drinker himself, Gray favors the legalization of liquor sales in dry Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Santford Martin, 63, the Journal's tall, pink-cheeked editor, is a lifelong teetotaler and editorial crusader for prohibition. Last June, when the county decided to vote on whether to repeal prohibition, wet Publisher Gray and dry Editor Martin found themselves at odds about Journal policy. Gray decided to run pro-repeal editorials (by associate editors) in both papers...
Convictions. This summer, for 2½ months, Publisher Gray and Editor Martin fought out the battle of the bottle on the Journal editorial page, though in the news columns, both newspapers played up stories favoring repeal. The mayor backed Gray; the churches lined up behind Martin...
Last week, as the "great debate" came to a close, Editor Martin summed up: "For reasons of conscience, principle and conviction, I have been unable to follow the policy of the [owners]. I am sure [they] acted also for the same reasons." In record numbers, the voters of Forsyth County registered their choice: For Editor Martin and prohibition: 15,734; for Publisher Gray and repeal...
Last week the Navy announced that its gunners would soon have a target worthy of their fire: the Martin KDM-1, a pilotless plane powered with a ramjet engine, designed to fly close to the speed of sound. The little drone is carried into the air under the wing of a larger airplane and flown fast enough to start its ramjet. Then it is released and flies thenceforth under remote control, while the Navy gunners try to shoot it down. When its fuel is gone, the drone zooms high in the air. A parachute opens and it floats down...