Word: mattes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then one day in April, 1945, when he was on vacation, Washington called him long distance to tell him that Roosevelt had died. George flew east. Harry Truman's amanuensis Matt Connelly met him and exclaimed: "Good God, George. We've got three speeches to write. We have to go before Congress tomorrow...
...Howard J. Curtis of Columbia University, one of the foremost researchers on the atom bomb, thought that an entirely new government agency should be created. And when Dr. Parran suggested that about ten years would be required to spend the $100,000,000, crusty Representative Matthew Mansfield ("Matt") Neely, co-author of the bill, exploded: "We have got to stop piddling around with cancer research. ... I don't care a cuss if the Public Health Service or Harvard College gets the money, if someone will just do what Roosevelt and Churchill did to solve the atomic bomb...
This year the Kentucky Derby's portly, 84-year-old impresario, Colonel Matt Winn, has upped the stakes from $75,000 to $100,000. But it is not the stakes alone that make the Derby indisputably the U.S. turf classic. Out-of-towners will blow about $8 million in Louisville this week-yet somehow the Derby manages to be the one event in the year when horse racing is least of all big business, and most of all sport. The Derby is Kentucky's great...
...keep it so, Matt Winn has a bustling publicity staff, including almost everybody in central Kentucky, working for nothing. Professional Kentuckians, over the traditional Derby breakfast (Kentucky ham and beaten biscuits), talk grandly of fine horses, fine whiskey, fine tobacco, and beautiful women. The race is the red stuffing in a very plump olive. Kentuckians, acting for one week the way Texans and Southern Californians do for 52, are out-this year, after three wartime "streetcar" Derbies, way out-to welcome the free-spending outlanders...
...race time, Elizabeth Arden and about 100,000 other people (previous attendance record: 95,000) would be sardined into Matt Winn's Derby grounds at 4th and Central Avenue...