Word: matthew
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...housing program nearly sixfold (see above), it upped the Administration request for a 90?-an-hour minimum wage (v. the present 75? floor) to $1, and shouted the bill to passage. Estimated additional wages to some 2,100,000 workers: $560 million a year. West Virginia's Matthew Neely adjudged it "a majestic measure of humanity." Last week Congress also: ¶Passed. 409 to 1 in the House, unanimously in the Senate (and President Eisenhower signed), a new 8% postal pay-raise bill which corrects many of the "inequities" cited by the President in his veto of a higher...
West Virginia's Bible-spouting Democratic Senator Matthew M. Neely was in rare form as he raged last week against President Eisenhower's veto of the 8.8% postal pay-raise bill (TIME, May 30). Cried he: "My text consists of the ninth and tenth verses of the seventh chapter of Matthew: 'What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?' For 1,900 years these questions remained unanswered. But now every postal employee...
...Force Chief of Staff Nathan Farragut Twining, 57, was reappointed for two years, and General Maxwell D. Taylor, also 53, had been nominated earlier (TIME, May 23) to take over from Army Chief of Staff Matthew B. Ridgway, 60, when he retires June...
...chief of U.N. forces in the Far East, soon shed his stars, leaped into some shorts, was a study in muscular alertness as he awaited the serve of his tennis opponent. Later this month, he will shift his strategy to Washington, where he will take over from retiring General Matthew B. Ridgway as Army Chief of Staff...
...Stanislav) and Prince Leopold Loewenstein ("a graduate of the University of Vienna"). Although both authors lack professional psychiatric qualifications, their couchside manner is soothing as a deep trance, their text chockablock with neat quotes from Greek Philosopher ("Know Thyself") Thales, Robert ("To see oursels as ithers see us") Burns, Matthew ("Resolve to be thyself") Arnold. Readers answer yes or no to a string of loaded questions including: "Are you an illegitimate child?", "Are your phobias strong ones?", "Are you afraid of burglars?", "Do you dislike touching doorknobs?", "Was your father of a generally cheerful nature?" After that, according to their...