Word: mathewson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Lemuel Mathewson, U.S. commander in Berlin, fired off a protest to the Soviet authorities, citing the collusion by Communist police. In Bonn, all members of the Bundestag except the Communists and the presiding officers (who have to stay) walked out on a speech by Max Reimann, the Communist leader in West Germany. Radio station RIAS cut Reimann's speech off the air, substituted music; and another station that carried Reimann's remarks in full was snowed under by complaints. West Berlin officials began installing street barriers of their own along the sector line...
...symbolic figures of athletes surrounding medallions of Esau the hunter, Jacob wrestling with the Angel, and St. Paul with his advice to run a good race. On the wall will be added the names of some modern sports giants: Tennis Champion Robert D. Wrenn, baseball's Christy Mathewson, football's Walter Camp and hockey's Hobey Baker...
...edition of the Chicago Tribune at $12 a week. The Paris Trib's cable tolls were in keeping with the princely salaries it paid its staff: a fat 50 words of variegated news arrived from America each night. Once Jim was handed a flimsy containing the line, "Christy Mathewson died Saranac," and from memory and by Ouija board wrote a column obituary on the great New York Giants pitcher...
...James H. Mathewson '51 spotted the pilferer in the Newell locker room May 2 and jotted down his car license number as he pulled away. Stroke Louis B. McCagg and two managers assisted in identifying Breton at a trial May 14. Breton, who stole about $50, elected to appeal but then changed his plea to guilty when he appeared in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday...
Major General Lemuel Mathewson, U.S. commander in Berlin, in a note to Sergei A. Dengin, Soviet-zone representative on the Four-Power Commission, charged the Volkspolizei with "irresponsible and outrageous action," demanded punishment. Dengin replied that American soldiers in the buses had incited "West sector rowdies" against the police. Dengin, however, made a personal apology to Mathewson...