Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natives call West-By-God Virginia, a machine politico named Matthew Mansfield Neely was licked in his race for the U.S. Senate. New Dealer Neely is a man of furious loves and hates: he likes the New Deal, flashy clothes; hates any West Virginia politico who crosses him. To Matt Neely, in & out of public office since 1908, defeat was bad enough; worse was the fact that it was administered by a handsome, young (47 years old) lawyer making his first political campaign, a Republican upstart with liberal leanings and a storybook name: Chapman Revercomb...
...Verbose Matt Neely was a Senator in 1940, with two years to go, when he saw his political machine was beginning to cough and fall apart. So he went home to run for Governor against a Democrat with a comic-book name: H. Guy Kump. He won. Out of State jobs went Kump followers, in went Neely men. This year, satisfied, Matt Neely ran again for Senator...
Reasons for his licking: 1) Kump followers, lusting for revenge, helped Revercomb; 2) C.I.O., which had always helped Matt Neely before, this year remained silent; many coal miners did not vote; 3) a Neely victory, West Virginians knew, would have left the State Governorless until a special election could be held. (West Virginia has no Lieutenant Governor; the State Senate president governs temporarily in the event of a vacancy...
Good sequence: A stubborn ball fan (Matt McHugh) faces assault & battery charges for socking an umpire. He is defended by Butterfingers, who patiently tells the court that the Brooklynite feels that he can never become a part of the U.S. until his team wins a pennant, that he therefore views the umpire not as a man, but as an enemy of the community. The understanding court levies a small fine...
This team is the apex of 25 years of head-coaching by Yale's great Natatutor Robert John Herman Kiphuth, whose charges in all that time have lost but three intercollegiate championship matches and nine dual meets. Swore Michigan's Coach Matt Mann: "Yale's is the greatest swimming team that has ever been gathered together. It's a truly great combination and much stronger than any of our previous Olympic teams...