Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Acting Mayor Walmsley: We'll take the matter under advisement. I want the authenticity of these names checked first...
...certain amount of U. S. grumbling last week when the U. S. Wightman cup team permitted five English women, not including able Eileen Bennett,* to come within a few aces of keeping the trophy in the matches played at Forest Hills, L. I. But the fact of the matter was that England, strapped though she is for male players, is a major power on the women's courts...
...Editor Moffat began to reach the retiring age. Passing 60, he found the editorship strenuous. Some months ago he talked the matter over with Crowell President Lee Wilder Maxwell, with Collier's Executive Director Thomas Hambly Beck. He discovered that they, too, had been thinking of a change. Last week Editor Moffat, 63, retired...
...notion to leave her telegraph tycoon husband, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, and marry a surgeon named Blake whom she later divorced (TIME, Aug. 5). But that happened in the East. In Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings with a sound of pure silver because it was there that the late John William Mackay, Irish pioneer, struck the Comstock Lode in 1873, earning $1,850 for every 15? he had invested. And it is there that Clarence Hungerford Mackay...
...shooting star; a mass of matter from celestial space striking the earth's atmosphere and bursting into flame...