Word: matthewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most readers of U.S. history, such salty captains as John Paul Jones, Edward Preble, Oliver Hazard Perry and his brother Matthew Calbraith Perry are "commodores," though the term in their times was a courtesy title bestowed on commanders of squadrons. (Americans once thought "admiral" smacked of aristocracy.) Though George Dewey later became an admiral, at Manila Bay he was a commodore. Last fortnight, seafaring Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill restoring the rank of commodore to official status, which it occupied only between...
While long-nosed Wanda Landowska was giving brilliant, vigorous, scholarly performances of C. P. E. Bach in Toronto last week (see col. 2), Leopold Stokowski was busy in Manhattan with Johann Sebastian Bach's tremendous St. Matthew Passion. He turned it into a weird theatrical spectacle that reminded Bach scholars of the audience reaction to the first performance in Leipzig's Thomaskirche in 1729. At that time a scandalized old lady rose to her feet and exclaimed: "God help us! It's surely an opera comedy...
...Bayou du Large, La. they finally got around to celebrating Christmas, last Sunday. A tinseled tree glittered in the little white chapel of St. Andrew's Episcopal Mission. Children solemnly posed in a tableau of the Nativity. The young Rev. Clarence R. Haden Jr., rector of St. Matthew's Church in nearby Houma, preached a Yuletide sermon to some 100 people...
...from no one could guess. In 1940 many an Administration bigwig, and some citizens, demanded that the President run again. This political year had seen the President drafted only by Illinois's aged (76) Representative Adolph J. Sabath (TIME, March 1) and by West Virginia's Governor Matthew M. Neely, overwhelmingly repudiated by his State's voters in last autumn's election and since defeated in his State Legislature on every turn...
...Matthew P. Doherty, Jr., Horold L. Harvey, Leon C. Hartstone, Herbert Jaques, Arthur W. Lucht, James R. McPherson, Lawrence Munson, Charles O. Porter, and Harold N. Warsawer...