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Podcast: The Silver King's War
Episode: Bonus Episode: History of Glenn L. Martin, Part 2
Description: Send us a textThis special bonus episode describes a specific event in the history of Glenn L. Martin, the man who made Stanley's plane, the famed Martin Marauder. Martin, known as "The Flying Dude," began his aviation career building a bi-plane in an empty Methodist church in downtown Santa Ana in 1909. Glenn Martin and his mother, Minta, visited Salina, Kansas, for an event at Kansas Wesleyan University in 1933. The Salina Journal published a story about Martin's visit titled: "Hometown Boy." Months later, in late May, first-term President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presented Glenn Martin the Robert J. Co...