Word: matthewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West Virginia. Tall, thin, Governor Matthew M. Neely likes the New Deal, the C.I.O., loves purple language and purple suits. He also loves politics, in which he is a shrewd and practical man. In 1940, as a U.S. Senator with two years still to go, he saw his career threatened by the machine run by onetime Governors Herman G. Kump and Homer A. Holt. He scurried home, got elected Governor, began repairing local fences...
Sample Komroff characterizations: Pilate as a genial, well-meaning Roman lawyer who is constantly having to cope with fanatics; Matthew as a tax collector so harried by his job that Christ's call comes as a welcome relief; Lazarus as a rich young Jewish cosmopolite whose death is caused by a chariot race he entered on the urging of his crony Pilate...
...alien control of Luscombe Air plane Corp., almost all in the hands of Leopold H. P. Klotz, now of New York City, formerly of Liechtenstein. Luscombe also got a new chairman (Chicago investment banker Matthew J. Hickey) and president (Lee N. Brutus, production man from Waco Aircraft). The seizure was at the express request of the U.S. Navy, for whom tiny Luscombe makes trainers and engines...
...general is Matthew Fox, balding (at 31), egg-shaped vice president of Universal Pictures who went to Washington a month ago to trouble-shoot for Bob Nathan's WPB Planning Board (TIME, March 2). The committees in 46 States who are collecting old rubber, paper, rags, metal-above all, iron and steel-are doing earnest work, but Matt Fox concluded that more was needed...
...Died. Matthew A. Dunn, 55, blind, humanity-loving Congressman from Pennsylvania (1933-41); in Pittsburgh. He once offered a jobs-for-everybody proposal which called for an appropriation...