Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once an A. F. of L. spokesman had turned out a brand of invective as good as that of John L. Lewis. The report, attributed to the pens of little Matthew Woll and'John P. Frey and adopted by a convention vote of 25,616 to 1,227, recommended that the A. F. of L. executive council be empowered to expel suspended C. I. O. unions at its own discretion. The rebel unions marked for first expulsion were John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America and Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
...executive council of the American Federation of Labor announced his successor as chief of U. S. Labor: William Green. No one was more surprised than inconspicuous Mr. Green. Old Cigarmaker Gompers, who regarded the A. F. of L. as his own personal property, had willed the job to Matthew Woll, head of the little Photo Engravers Union. But having grown restive under long Gompers rule, the individualistic members of the A. F. of L. high command were in no mood to honor the cigarmaker's dying dictates...
...Matthew Woll, Samuel Gompers' short, swart "Crown Prince," a high-tariff Republican who wears wing collars and is as conservative as a life insurance company president, which he is (Union Labor Life). Luxemburg-born, he is more sophisticated than his A. F. of L. colleagues, dislikes Bill Green almost as much as he does John Lewis...
...Semitic origin from Africa-chiefly Ethiopia, whose Coptic Church bears some Hebrew ritual traits. Harlem's only black Jewish synagog is run by a bearded Negro named Moshe Ben Moshe Ben Yehuda, who was born in Lagos, West Africa, but took the U. S. name of Wentworth Arthur Matthew. Rabbi Matthew is a D. D. from the University of Berlin, has studied in Palestine's Tel Aviv and at the Pittsburgh Bible Institute. He believes that black Jews are descended from Jacob, white from Esau, twin sons of Isaac, and that he in particular is of the Tribe...
Chairman of the Conference was one of the world's most respected Quakers, Dr. Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford. Author of 40 books, longtime philosophy professor, Quaker Jones represents the broadening and liberalizing of Quaker thought which, without cooling its emotional nature, has kept the sect its self-respect. Dr. Jones, 74, is tall, pink-cheeked, white-crested, talks with the crisp accent of his native South China, Me.,, of whose Yearly Meeting he is still a member. He still lives on Haverford's cricket green, a professor emeritus, likes to watch from his window the sport which...