Word: matthewes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cinema scripts (Pride and Prejudice; Jane Eyre), written five books. Now 51, he lives with his wife Martha on a lonely ranch near Llano in the Mojave Desert, 80 miles from Los Angeles. "The only social life,"he says, "is with the cows." The Huxleys' son Matthew, 22, is a reader for Warner Bros...
Quezon, who once planned to costume the attendants at his Philippine mansion like Buckingham Palace guards, went to his grave in somber splendor. All night, after its return to Washington in a dark baggage car, his body lay in state before the flower-banked altar of St. Matthew's Cathedral off fashionable Connecticut Avenue. White-gloved soldiers stood impassively with rifles grounded as crowds filed past. People of Filipino descent, great men of the U.S. and plain Americans came, paused, passed on, hour after hour. The next morning General Marshall, Admiral King, Interior Secretary Ickes, Senators and Supreme Court...
Subsecretary Somoza's slick, smiling, kinetic personality won over U.S. Minister Matthew Elting Hanna. His graceful dancing entranced Mrs. Hanna. The Americans pushed Tacho's fortunes, were gratified when President Moncada put him at the head of the National Guard. In good time, Tacho used the National Guard to liquidate his most formidable rival: Augusto Sandino, the pint-sized, ferocious patriot whose ragged guerrillas never yielded to the U.S. Marines. In 1936, Tacho took the Presidency for himself in a phony election, won immediate U.S. recognition...
...82nd Airborne: Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, 49, West Pointer, first U.S. commander to lead an airborne division into action (in Sicily); he jumped with his outfit into Normandy (he prefers parachuting to glider landing...
...though to underscore the threat, carriers, detached from Spruance's Fifth Fleet, steamed up to the Bonins. Their planes circled over the Port Lloyd anchorage used by Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853, then dived to pock the runways of Peel Island (Chichi Jima) which Perry had vainly urged the U.S. to take for a coaling station...