Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make the same cut in all Government departments. The debate became sharper. New York's Herbert Lehman, a man who is always pleading to save something, pleaded to spare the payrolls of such public health activities as heart disease and cancer research. West Virginia's Matthew Neely gibed that Douglas was "not only a great debater but, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, also a great liberal." Neely, who is an unimpressive Fair Dealer all week, orated that the cut would "have calamitous consequences...
...Chaplain Otto Sporrer, U.S.N. The chaplain, a lieutenant commander who was at Chosin Reservoir with the Marines, came home to accuse the Army in Korea of being poorly led, its officers softened by luxury, and its men, at one point, guilty of cowardice (TIME, April 2). Countered General Matthew Ridgway in a report to the Pentagon last week: "The specific allegations which could be checked in this theater have been disproved in their entirety . . . [Chaplain Sporrer] has slandered the reputation of many brave and honorable soldiers, both dead and alive...
...special Pan American Constellation carried Marshall to Tokyo's Haneda airport, where he joined General Matthew B. Ridgway. They took a waiting C-54 and roared off to a forward area landing strip in Korea. Within minutes, eleven light planes had joined it-like rooks gliding in for a fence-rail convention. Almost all the brass in Korea, from the Eighth Army's Lieut. General James A. Van Fleet to commanders of the allied detachments fighting in Korea, had been summoned. In Washington, Dean Acheson said that he didn't know that the Defense Secretary had left...
...General Assembly, India's Sir Benegal Rau gleefully scooped up the Johnson idea, also recalled a recent statement by General Matthew Ridgway: "It would be a tremendous victory for the United Nations if the war ended with our forces in control up to the 38th parallel." The Kremlin seemed interested, too. The Moscow press printed the full text of Johnson's proposal. So did New York's Daily Worker; it commented significantly: "Why wait till June 25? End the killing now . . . Stop the war . . . Start talking with China and Korea...
...Captain Matthew Rhem of the Signal Corps sent a greeting from Gen. Willis D. Crittenberger, commander of the First Army, to the armed forces throughout the world. The message circled the globe in one-eighth of a second and when it returned to Governors Island it activated a miniature atomic pile. The splitting uranium atoms then exploded a magnesium bomb, severing a ribbon to release pigeons from a coop. --New York Times...