Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think a Roman Catholic can be elected President. When the right man comes along -no matter what his religion-the American voters will vote for him. Let's not only preach democracy, but let's live it. Senator Kennedy is the right man; he will be our next President...
...public mind, Parliament must not assert its "harassing" power against the government. Added Debre: "My words are not dictated by a taste for theory but by the memory of the distortion of parliamentary methods that since 1872 has made the state its first victim. Democracy is a matter of great patience. It may be amusing to revise a government every six months, but true democracy lies in governmental stability between national elections. Those who criticize me most will recognize later how much they are obligated...
...Ride It Out." Every investment decision and matter of importance is left to Robinson and the other four trustees, with help from the six-man advisory board. In the tradition that the trustee shares in the rewards he brings to others, they are among the best-paid men in U.S. industry. Vice Chairman Kenneth Isaacs, Robinson's righthand man and the president of the Growth Stock Fund, made $360,989 last year. The junior trustee made more than...
...always been a reasonable dodge of bohemians, but Lipton has elevated the beatnik's indolence to the dedication of a mendicant order. "Only poverty is holy," he quotes approvingly. "Moneytheism" is the tail-finned dragon that the tattered saints are fighting. All such beatnik absurdities would not matter if their writings and paintings had some value. But most of the art that Lipton's shaggy sufferers turn out is not better, he admits, than the weekend seascape by the vice president of a spark-plug firm...
...addition to the material concerning Mrs. Stowe herself, there is a volume of similar matter relating to the Stowe and Beecher famlies. Because of the value of the gift, Mrs. Richard Borden, Director of the Archives, stated that should funds become available, the Archives would like to create a Beecher-Stowe Memorial Room...