Word: matt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breakfast, at which Governor Earle was entertaining State Democratic Chair man David Lawrence and Philadelphia Leader Matt McCloskey, had been called to celebrate the Guffey machine's decision of the night before on its candidate for Governor in the April primaries. No sooner had Mr. Guffey's followers started congratulating not Thomas Kennedy but an obscure, conservative Pittsburgh law yer named Charles Alvin Jones on his tentative nomination than the excitement be gan. No reporters were present and most of them were unable to describe the scene in detail, but Thomas P. O'Neil of Phila delphia...
...Guffey arrived . . . fighting mad. . . .'All bets are off,' said Guffey. 'I am a candidate for Governor, come hell or high water. . . .' Matt McCloskey raced across the room, shook his fist under Guffey's nose. . . . Red with rage, Dave Lawrence, who the night before took himself out of the race, jumped into the free-for-all. . . . 'Now I understand,' he bellowed, 'why I didn't get the support for my candidacy from persons who . . . should have been in my corner...
...Matt Mann, son of an English saloon keeper, learned to swim in the dirty streams below the woolen mills at Leeds, where the water dyed him blue one day, red the next. At 8 he was junior swimming champion of England, at 22 he went to the U. S. on a professional barnstorming tour. Robert Kiphuth was born & bred in upstate New York, took all his exercise on land. At 22 he was a punctilious instructor in physical education at Yale...
Harry Donaldson was made playing manager by acclamation and the team will be chosen from among officers George DePinto, Fred Sennott, William Lawrence, "Speed" Kelly, Christy Morris, Matt Toohy, Bill "Flash" Graney, and "Shuffle" Wilson, pinch-hitter...
Stop-Over (by Matt and Sam Taylor; produced by Chase Productions, Inc.). To prove that suffering regenerates the human spirit, the Brothers Taylor coop up an odd lot of sinners for one night, torment them with gunplay and passion, turn them loose before dawn, chastened and wiser...