Word: matthew
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...assuring viewers that an inferiority complex should not prevent financial success. The Peales told how a friend of theirs, a perennial business failure, utilized his return to the bosom of the church to develop a profitable line of costume jewelry: he featured the "mustard seed of faith" (Matthew 17:20) in charm bracelets, clips and watch fobs. Said Dr. Peale: "It helps to have faith in God as well as in yourself...
Each year, as Congress winds up its work, West Virginia's Bible-quoting Senator Matthew Neely denounces what he calls "the scourge of senatorial verbosity." Last week aging Democrat Neely came out from behind the three-foot piles of Congressional Records on his Senate desk and reported that in 155 days this year, Congress had filled 21,484 pages with an estimated 31,946,708 words at a printing cost of $1,842,140. Ten Senators (unnamed) had supplied half the words...
...hand was Brigadier General (ret.) David Sarnoff, whose Radio Corporation of America had collaborated with the Signal Corps in developing combat TV. Sarnoff also saw "a new era in tactical communications . . . which will enable a commander to keep a watchful eye on every section of the battlefield." General Matthew B. Ridgway, Chief of Staff, seemed a little less certain that the millennium was at hand. He observed that the Army "is exploring to the fullest extent possible every scientific or technical advance as it occurs," but warned that "we are not interested in gadgetry as such...
North Dakota's windy old William Langer asked West Virginia's aging (79) Democrat Matthew Neely: "Is President Eisenhower a Republican or a Democrat?" Replied Neely mischievously, "Why ask me? It took him 62 years to find that out. While we are on that point ... it took him over 60 years to find out that he could join a church...
...General Matthew Ridgway (Fri. 10:30 p.m., NBC) addressing the opening session of the Columbia University American Assembly conference at Harriman...