Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From volcano-cursed Nicaragua to volcano-cursed Guatemala President Roosevelt last week shifted Minister Matthew Elting Hanna (no kin to the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna) to succeed Mr. Whitehouse. Graduate of West Point, Mr. Hanna turned career diplomat in 1917. From Managua's 1931 earthquake Minister Hanna emerged a local hero...
Citizens of the Western world who think of Japanese civilization as dating from Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) would change their minds after reading Lady Murasaki's The Tale of Genji. Written some time ago (1001-15) by a lady-in-waiting to the Empress Akiko, it has been a widely-known classic in Japan since 1022. When British Scholar Arthur David Waley brought out the first volume of his translation (1925), critics tumbled over themselves to get within wreath-throwing distance. The Tale of Genji was compared to Proust, Jane Austen. Boccaccio. Shakespeare. Its translator calls...
...Bill Graber of Southern California, whose pole-vaulting won the intercollegiate championship for his team in 1931, was unexpectedly tied by Matthew Gordy of Louisiana State, at 14 ft. The tie gave Louisiana State the points it needed to win the meet, with a seven-man squad, in the most surprising upset of the season, 58 points to Southern California's 54. Competing in the 29th Annual Interscholastic championships at Soldier Field the same day, Jesse Owens, Negro star of Cleveland's East Technical High school, tied the world's record in the 100-yd. dash; broke...
...Married. Matthew Chauncey ("Matt") Brush, 56, Wall Street trader, president of American International Corp. (investment trust), reputed to be richest U. S. bachelor of his age; and one Elizabeth Hunger, 33, his private secretary; in Larchmont, N. Y. Because of his knowledge of market operations, he was called to testify at the U. S. Senate's investigation of short selling last spring. Director of 47 companies, he cultivates friends assiduously, is said to keep a card index file of every person he meets. In his luxurious Manhattan apartment he collects elephants of ivory, ebony, stone and metal, owns...
...Rufus Matthew Jones, Quaker member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry S.T.D...