Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laws. Quill, the meek little man who used to think that men who wore top hats never had to go to the bathroom, is overplayed by Hume Cronyn. Barbara Robbins as Evelyn Quill does nothing to redeem a role which is entirely out of key. Harold Grau, Matt Briggs, Naomi Rae, and Otto Hulett are all good, and Donald Oenslager's hotel room set is particularly effective...
...Chicago Irishman named Andy Frain contrived to get caught crashing the gate at the Kentucky Derby, insisted on seeing Derby Impresario Matt Winn. Then he interrupted Colonel Winn's tirade, took him to a window, pointed out how inefficiently the crowds were being handled: Here was a gate not being used; there a parking space in utter confusion. Whipping out a blueprint of the grounds, Andy Frain presently persuaded Matt Winn to sign over the ushering to him. For last week's running of the Derby (see p. 40), Usher Frain needed the help of 250 trained aides...
Governor George Howard Earle III presumably did not rise from Republican riches to eminence as Pennsylvania's foremost practicing liberal by pitching political curve balls. To Pennsylvanians therefore it seemed phenomenally unnatural that Mr. Wilson should have been able to daub Mr. Earle along with Little Matt and to make some of the mud stick on both. Yet the mayor accomplished this feat last week in the furtherance of his effort to do the Governor out of nomination to the Senate...
...Williamsport, Pa., on a platform graced also by the potent Emma Guffey Miller, sister and mentor of U. S. Senator Joseph Guffey, the mayor knowingly inquired: 1) whether Governor Earle had borrowed $30,000 from Little Matt; 2) how many millions of dollars worth of State contracts had been awarded to Contractor McCloskey; and 3) how many McCloskey men the State had appointed to inspect McCloskey jobs. From Harrisburg hapless Debtor Earle replied: "Matthew H. McCloskey has been one of my personal friends. ... As my friend, he made several loans to me during the years 1935 and 1936, prior...
...between the principals in the once invincible Guffey-Earle-McCloskey-John L. Lewis combination would be filled with scandalous dirt seldom matched in scandalous Pennsylvania politics. No sooner had Mayor Wilson opened the mudgates than Boss Guffey asked the Senate to find out whether Governor Earle had designated Little Matt as a State Representative in apportioning PWA funds. PWA Administrator Harold Ickes tacitly confirmed that Contractor McCloskey had counseled both the State and the PWA on the mechanics of allotting more than twenty million Federal dollars to Pennsylvania's $65,000.000 public-works program, and it was established that...