Word: matthew
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...tiny (pop. 185) village of Consolation in France's Jura Mountains, Canon Pierre Bretillot (who is both priest and mayor) dedicated a new tax office last week. His prayer would have pleased Matthew, the onetime tax collector, as well as collectors of internal revenue anywhere in the world...
...orphans arrested Saturday for trespassing while selling magazine subscriptions in the Freshman dorms were tried and convicted yesterday in a Cambridge court. According to Matthew J. Toohy, Captain of the University Police, the judge placed the case "in file" and did not impose a sentence. A representative of the subscription company which had employed the boys said Sunday night that the orphans have quit their jobs selling publications...
Also, Julius L. Novick, of Adams House and New York City, English; John B. Radner, of Winthrop House and Evanston, III., English; Matthew M. Rechler, of Adams House and Brooklyn, N.Y., Bio-Chemistry; Edward G. Steinberg, of Dudley House and Mobile, Ala., Romance Languages; and Robert L. Sugar, of Lowell House and Beachwood, Ohio, Physics...
...review of the book Edison, by Matthew Josephson, in your Nov. 2 issue is commendably excellent. As a "ham" in a small Western Union office in the 1890s here in the sphenoid tip of the Old Dominion, I coincidentally graduated from high school in 1899 and started looping about over the U.S. and Canada as a "boomer," or tramp telegrapher. When I hit Detroit, Tom Edison was in New York working the first Albany circuit at 195 Broadway. When I hit 195 Broadway, I occasionally sat in on the first Albany circuit, and although Tom had sold his quadruplex patent...
Edison, by Matthew Josephson. A brisk biography of the man who became a world symbol of Yankee ingenuity...