Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House Spokesman's conference with newspapermen was suddenly interrupted when his white collie, Rob Roy, barked loudly, rushed to the Spokesman's side. "What's the matter?" said the Spokesman. "Are they stepping on your toes...
...member of the Massachusetts State Legislature, of the U. S. House of Representatives, as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, and as Governor of Massachusetts, he has returned, uncashed, all salary checks received as salary. Thus Governor Fuller. Why, however, has his action regarding the Sacco-Vanzetti case become a matter of national, of international concern? Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti are awaiting execution for a payroll robbery, accompanied by murder, occurring in South Braintree, Mass., on April 15, 1920. A fortnight ago Judge Webster Thayer, trial judge at the time of the conviction, sentenced the two Italians to be executed sometime...
...allegations discussed above, he will doubtless consider the facts that Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, tried by a jury of their peers, were found guilty; that Trial Judge Webster Thayer, before whom have come repeated petitions for a new trial has steadfastly refused to consider any of the matter contained in these petitions as important enough to justify reopening th? case. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has also refused to allow appeals taken from the verdict arrived at in Judge Thayer's court, though it should be added that in Massachusetts the Supreme Court is not allowed to pass...
...declare that no other motor manufacturer would dare to act towards his dealers as Ford has acted and still acts. Be that as it may, this I do know: . . . 'Ford is absolutely ruthless in his treatment of the people working for him or representing him. No man, no matter how responsible his position, can feel secure. Men are fired right and left, without rhyme or reason. The Ford management is a hotbed of jealousy and intrigue...
...person of perpetual vigor, has put his players through 68 plays in six years. Some of his actors (Elmer Lehr, Russell Collins, Carl Benton Reid) have performed more than 650 times in some 50 roles, "an experience, incidentally," says Director McConnell, "which the trained European actor takes as a matter of course." At their Play House, alert Clevelanders see many a play, from Shakespeare to Shaw, invisible elsewhere...