Word: matheson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Matheson. A bright sun was shining across Biscayne Bay in Florida one day last February as William John Matheson, retired chemical tycoon, sat on his Coconut Grove porch and watched one of his white high-sided launches return with indignant house guests from Key Biscayne six miles away. Close behind came a black speed launch in charge of Coast Guardsmen. A rough sea was running. Spray curtains had been in place. The guardsmen had fired five rifle shots at the Matheson boat to stop...
...Matheson filed a protest with Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen who took up the matter with Rear-Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard commandant at Washington. Wrote Admiral Billard to Tycoon Matheson: "As your launch was innocently engaged, I express regret . . . but . . . the Coast Guard personnel involved are not censurable in this incident...
...greatness of the godly life, as his thought carries up into the very heart of the Heavenly Father, we seem to hear as an undertone the voice of Knox on High Street in Edinboro, or of Macleod or Chalmers, softened by the sweet voice of Matheson, while Walter Scott and Robert Burns stand in the background...