Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Army Chief of Staff Matthew B. Ridgway appeared before the House Armed Services Committee, a Democrat asked if the null cut in ground forces ordered by Commander in Chief Eisenhower by 1956 would affect the safety of the country. General Ridgway's answer: "I think it does...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S craggy, compassionate countenance, crinkling with humor and graven by tragedy, is as familiar to most Americans as the faces of their own grandfathers. The first great photographer, Matthew Brady, portrayed Lincoln many times in the course of the Civil War, and generations of schoolboys have studied Brady's portraits. Few ever saw the beardless, relatively untried Lincoln opposite, which was displayed with a Lincoln's Birthday flourish this week in Washington's Corcoran Gallery...
...University Police will send five men to patrol the Smoker, "in case some outsiders decide to make trouble," Matthew J. Toohy, University Police Chief, said. The University Police will also not move to prevent smoking in Memorial Hall, or serving beer to minors...
...unanimously passed, asking President Eisenhower to release surplus food to China to relieve this famine. Many outstanding religious leaders in this nation support this program among whom are Bishop W. Appleton Lawrence; Edwin T. Dahlberg, former President American Baptist Convention; John Haynes Holmes, Minister Emeritus, Community Church, New York; Matthew W. Clair, Bishop, Methodist Church; and many others. The church at which I am minister has unanimously adopted a resolution supporting the Mass. Council of Churches in this matter, and many ministers I know personally are preaching sermons on this subject because they think it of prime importance...
According to Matthew J. Toohy, head of University police, reports from Mellon shortly after Duane's capture claimed that over $100 had been stolen from the dormitory; and it was believed Duane had taken the money...