Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more youthful News, founded in 1925, swore allegiance to the Democratic Party from 1954 to '57, when it belonged to Philadelphia Contractor Matthew McCloskey, longtime treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. In 1957 McCloskey sold it to Annenberg and the paper returned to the Republican fold...
When Commodore Matthew Perry's U.S. flotilla pried open the door of hermetic Japan in 1854, the world gasped delightedly at the treasures within. The quaintness of Japanese life and the beauty of its art affected interior decoration from New York to Paris, influenced the course of modern painting, launched a flood of books and operas. What, while the West marveled, did the Japanese make...
...accounts," Barry Goldwater told 1,500 county government officials in Washington last week in his first major speech since he was nominated. "I won't say that the papers misquote me," he added, "but I sometimes, wonder where Christianity would be today if some of these reporters were Matthew, Mark, Luke and John...
That major American export, the tourist, is once again beginning to fan out across what Novelist Nancy Mitford's Uncle Matthew used to call "bloody abroad." The old familiar faces -collegian and schoolteacher, all-expenser and retiree-are about to turn up in the old familiar places, at the old familiar prices...
...Died. Matthew Michael Fox, 53, Hollywood's own version of the wheeler-dealer, who in the early 1940s turned nearly bankrupt Universal Pictures into a $7,000,000-a-year profitmaker by luring away stars from other studios, made a further killing by selling old movies to TV, later gained control of Skiatron, which pioneered pay TV, and finally went international in 1948 by persuading the newborn Republic of Indonesia to make him its U.S. trade broker, a deal involving $150 million a year before it collapsed in 1950; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...