Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through empty dark streets in Cincinnati about 3 a. m. one night last week, a handful of pious folk hastened to North Presbyterian Church. Its lights blazed strangely, excitingly. Inside, in the pulpit, was Rev. Homer Campbell, reading aloud the beginning of the New Testament, the gospel of Matthew. After a time he let a parishioner mount the pulpit, take his place, continue the reading. Day broke, the morning brightened, more worshippers drifted in, and still the reading went on, through Mark, Luke and John, into Acts. Fresh readers spelled tired ones every ten minutes. The words...
...Cord . . . and his associated interests now have effective control. . . . Under these circumstances Messrs. La Motte T. Cohû, George R. Hann, W. A. Harriman, Charles L. Lawrance, Robert Lehman, Lindley C. Morton and Matthew S. Sloan and myself believe it would serve no useful purpose for us to continue as directors of the corporation, and I am accordingly resigning as president...
...Stephens report dampened Founder Bush not a whit. He triumphantly announced that he had won the proxy "battle." President Stephens, who knows that a drastic reorganization is the company's only salvation, promptly resigned. Most of the directors including General James Guthrie Harbord, chairman of Radio Corp., Matthew Scott Sloan, onetime president of New York Edison, Chairman Frank Bailey of Prudence Co., also quit in disgust. With Director Frederick J. Lisman's resignation went a strong demand for an investigation by an impartial stockholders' committee...
Winthrop Williams Aldrich, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Matthew Chauncey Brush and Charles E. Richardson resigned as directors of Fox Film Corp. to make way for Senator Daniel O. Hastings of Delaware (receiver for General Theatres Equipment, Inc., which controls Fox) and several Fox officials. No change of control was signified, but gentlemen had a natural desire to retire from a directorate on which the limelight of Senatorial investigation may soon be playing...
True to tradition the Leverett Hares produced the Maddest Hatters in M. J. Gibney '34, who polled 54 votes, and Matthew Cobb '35, a Lampoon editor, receiver of 51. The financial district about Wigglesworth, Straus, and Matthews halls opened weak in the early hours of polling, but rallied toward the close to give strong support to Strafford Wentworth '36 and G. B. Lauriat '36 with 35 votes each...