Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis. Only one tramp, and he but a nominal one, was there-Harry W. Johannes Jr. of Baltimore, representing the idealistic International Brotherhood Welfare Association. He would not enter the church, remained outdoors, distributing copies of The Hobo News. The only funeral eulogy was a phrase from Matthew:-"I was an hungered and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink"-spoken by the minister of All Souls', Dr. Robert B. Day, the late idealist's classmate at Meadville Theological School...
...more alarmed about Red strikes was Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, who brought a 1,000-page manuscript on the subject prepared by the late Samuel Gompers and supplemented it by his own up-to-the-minute observations. "The Communists have become a serious police problem. . . . Why should the labor unions be compelled to bear the brunt of this work...
...income will relieve "the strain on overburdened endowments," "pay better salaries to teachers, maintain the institution's physical property. In justification of their move, the Trustees pointed out that Vassar's clientele had suffered nothing from the last tuition increase (1925). They cited the words of Founder Matthew Vassar: "I go for the best means, cost what they may, and corresponding prices in return...
Said Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (Auld Licht Idylls, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Kiss for Cinderella) upon being made a Freeman of his native Kirriemuir which he immortalized as "Thrums" in A Window in Thrums (1889): "I remember once being called upon in America to speak to a women's college containing 900 girls, and I said I could not, but if they would come outside one at a time I would make 900 speeches to them...
...annual basis. It was also announced that the company's first quarter net was $231,235 and that the year had begun with the company's books showing more than $40,000,000 in uncompleted work. Unusual seemed the western pilgrimage of such Manhattan Ulen-men as Matthew Chauncey Brush and Harry A. Arthur of American International Corp.; of Bayard F. Pope and George O. Muhlfeld of Stone & Webster; of Gordon H. Balch of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. The trip was also taken by Chicago Ulen-men Marshall Field and Edward P. Currier, of Field, Glore...