Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing's grown to something quite enormous," said white-haired, spinsterish Kingsley Martin, editor of London's socialist New Statesman and Nation...
Some months ago, when Henry Wallace had taken over the editorship of the New Republic, Kingsley Martin had sent a routine congratulatory note and asked Wallace to come to England some time as his guest. When Wallace accepted, the "thing" had begun to grow. Martin had to turn over his own secretary to cope with the invitations for speeches; he assigned a special man to press relations...
Like Two Dogs. Last week the Messianic windbag stepped out of a plane at London Airport into a blustery English gale. Ducking his head against stinging hail, he shook hands with Kingsley Martin and greeted the waiting newsmen...
...easygoing President Ramón Grau San Martin, himself an Auténtico, at last moving to oust his political allies, the Communists, from the C.T.C., thus curb them as a political party? Some Auténtico leaders thought so. If that happened, the C.T.C. would probably shed its C.T.A.L. connections and hook up with the A.F.L-sponsored, right-wing Inter-American Federation of Labor. But smooth, well-tailored Don Vicente, back in his Mexican penthouse office, said "our relations with Grau are still cordial; he believes, as ever, in the ideals of the C.T.A.L...
...brain. All you got is a strong back. We'll see who stays in the big leagues the longest." Durocher was thrown off the gentlemanly Yankees, bounced in Cincinnati, and came down to earth in St. Louis with the famed Gashouse Gang (Pepper Martin, Dizzy Dean and Frankie Frisch...