Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prospect is Admiral Arthur William Radford, naval aviator and commander of the Pacific Fleet . . . To succeed General Joseph Lawton Collins, the President would like to name his old friend, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther . . . But Ike is said to think that NATO needs Gruenther more than it needs General Matthew Ridgway . . . Leading candidate: Ridgway. Probable choice [for Air Force Chief of Staff] : General Nathan Farragut Twining . . . Admiral William Morrow Fechteler . . . will probably be replaced as Chief of Naval Operations. Front runner for the job: Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney...
...other men slated for degrees are still unknown, but usually reliable sources have mentioned five men as likely choices. They are: Grayson L. Kirk, political scientist and new president of Columbia University; General Matthew B. Ridgway, recently nominated Army Chief of Staff and retiring Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe; Willard L. Sperry, who is retiring after 31 years as Dean of the Divinity School; Winthrop Aldrich '07, banker and new Ambassador to the Court of St. James; and Paul H. Buck, retiring Provost of the University...
...later learned that John Hall, Matthew janitor, had turned the bicycle over to the police after finding it abandoned in front of his home. Although the police had not reported the recovery to Runquist, they produced records showing that they had picked up the bike from Hall...
...representative Matthew L. McGrath best summed up the general reaction; "It was a very interesting and surprising election," he said. "We concentrated all our efforts on the maids, and yet took a terrible beating there. If we had only spent a little more time talking with the men, we could have won them. We only needed eight more votes...
When contacted last night, Matthew L. McGrath, New England director of the AFL affiliated Building Service Employees International, lashed out at Reynolds for what he termed "slanting" the letter to the employees. "Mr. Reynolds clearly was not impartial in his position should show strict impartiality." McGarth also denied that the AFL or any other union could call a strike unless the local members wanted...