Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hair but not his vim, ease up on poker and take to golf. He could afford to play politics without running for office. By picking his candidates after the primaries, he steered clear of West Virginia's bitter Democratic feuds, thus stands well with such enemies as Senators Matthew M. Neely and anti-New Deal Rush Holt...
Readers of recent muckraking histories like Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons are likely to feel they have heard all they want to about early U. S. railroad builders. In monotonous procession the great figures of the post-Civil War period follow each other-all up to their ears in political intrigues, angling for Federal land grants, corrupting legislatures, double-crossing the public, their stockholders and each other so consistently that it seems remarkable the railroads ever got built...
...fight dictatorship if we go arm-in-arm with Stalin?" rhetorically asked American Federation of Labor Delegate Matthew Woll last week in a debate at Oslo, Norway. Occasion: meeting of the general council of the International Federation of Trade Unions (Iftu). Issue at stake; proposed merger of the 22,500,000 Russian trade unionists with the 17,000,000 Iftu members (mostly from democratic countries), which would give the U. S. S. R. the loudest voice in International Labor...
...believe in a liberal education as a necessary condition for the maintenance of a liberal democracy," writes Matthew Well, vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, in today's Alumni Dulletin...