Word: matter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Donham of the Business School being out of town, Assistant Dean D.W. Malott was asked late last night to make a statement concerning Representative Hagan's attack and made the following remarks: "In accordance with the usual policy of the University authorities. I have nothing to say about the matter. I do not care to make any statement whatsoever...
Well did Mr. Gann know that for his wife to reach her eminence, many an official wheel had had to. turn. The Vice President had protested against a State Department ruling which failed to accord Mrs. Gann full recognition (TIME, April 15). The matter was in the hands of Secretary of State Stimson...
...searchers found him atop a straw stack. Dreading capture, he gulped down poison. Purged by a physician, he explained that he had been so pestered by a life insurance agent that suicide had seemed attractive. . . . The pestiferousness of such agents- porch-climbers, telephoners, buttonholers. classmates-may soon become a matter for the attention of Citizen Calvin Coolidge. Last week he accepted nomination to New York Life Insurance Co.'s board of directors and assignment to the agency committee where he will specialize in "human contacts." His formal election will occur in May. Twenty-eight years ago this same company...
...chaperoned .her career, the sister Florence who had taught her to sing, the telegraph-operating father who had flashed the first news of daughter's triumph from the wings, Marion Talley announced that she was through with being a prima donna. Her statement was as simple and matter of fact as herself: "My retirement is permanent. I am going West with my family. The farm might be in California and it might be in Colorado but I'm going to look first in the Middle West. I am going to be just like all the other farmers...
...view of the many advantages of such a scheme it does not seem too much to ask that the hours of the University laboratories approximate those of the library. No increase in facilities, no matter how luxurious, can make up for an inexplicable restriction in their availability, and it is high time that the authorities either meet the needs of their students or show just cause for the impossibility of so doing...