Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neither J. P. Morgan & Company, nor, so far as they know, any of the companies in which they have any interest, direct or indirect, have taken any position for or against public or private ownership of the St. Lawrence River water power or the matter of its development...
...Insofar as we have any opinion in the matter, it is our belief that, in speaking generally, these power companies are abstaining and should continue to abstain from intervention in the decision of this question and should loyally cooperate in the decision of the public authorities when that decision has been arrived...
Amid a rising storm of comment, Rector Blackshear stuck to his announcement, explained he had done it as a matter of "church policy" and as a "friend to the Negro race." Reasons he gave were: "I do not wish to take support from the two churches for colored people in the neighborhood. Furthermore, in these congregations Negroes can develop their power of leadership, whereas in white congregations they are bound to be subdued...
Pres. Angell said the week-end exodus from New Haven had become a serious matter, adding that "this extension work for Yale" should be curtailed. He said week-ends should be spent at New Haven making social contacts, an essential part of the college career...
...have never seen the Marx brothers, if indeed any such still exist. It may be assumed that the latter class is in fact not a myth in order to justify a review of one of their productions; for the first mentioned class will go to see it no matter what the reviewer says, and the second mentioned couldn't by any amount of persuasion be induced to view such a spectacle after their initial experience...