Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite true, said Acheson, that Alger Hiss "became, and he remains, my friend. I do not detract from that when I state that Alger Hiss was not my assistant." It was Donald Hiss, not Alger, who had been his assistant. Said Acheson: "This whole matter of confusion of two men has arisen out of the testimony of my former colleague, Mr. Adolf Berle [TIME, Jan. 17] ... Mr. Berle's memory has gone badly astray...
...brothers had "associations which would make his presence in my office embarrassing to me." But Berle couldn't say which Hiss brother, nor what the "associations" were. Acheson did, however, speak to Donald Hiss about it, and getting his reassurances, "I had complete confidence in him and the matter was closed...
...Sprague Coolidge Foundation, the greatest institution of music patronage in the world. On establishing the Foundation, Mrs. Coolidge wrote, "Fashion is an enemy to art, I think, and if we aim at a musical center which shall be as respectively national as the Library... it would be an easy matter to explain the emission of the society element. I have wished to make possible... the composition and performance of music in ways which might otherwise be considered too unique or too expensive to be ordinarily undertaken...
...recommending "Richard III" it is primarily because it is rarely presented, because the acting and staging of this production is generally superior, and because no matter how you look at it, the Copley Players are offering the best bargain in the professional theater hereabouts...
...Matter dare not sing-Man is a spirit...