Word: matthewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Matthew ("Matt") Chauncey Brush, 63, retired (1933) head of American International Corp.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Among present-day Wall Streeters, handsome, bushy-haired Matt Brush symbolized the bygone Terrific Twenties. A born speculator, Brush went east from Kansas to make a fortune. His financial strategy first made him director of the dilapidated Boston "L"; some 50 other companies by 1929. During World War I he managed the great Hog Island Shipyard. A confirmed bachelor until 56, he then married his 33-year-old secretary. His hobby: collecting 2,000 model elephants, some as big as dogs...
Manhattan has many a hotspot, many a white-tie joint, but few nightclubs in which a connoisseur of jazz would care to be found. Two years ago a mild-mannered little Trenton, N. J. shoe-store owner named Barney Josephson (no kin to Author Matthew Josephson) opened a subterranean nightclub in downtown Manhattan. He wanted the kind of place where people like himself would not be sneered at by waiters, cigaret and hat-check girls, or bored by a commercial girl show. He called it Café Society, and turned loose some excellent comic artists (among them Peggy Bacon, William...
...PRESIDENT MAKERS-Matthew Josephson-Harcourt, Brace...
With the implacable serenity of a man with a thesis who does not at all mind being a bore, Matthew Josephson continues to tell Americans that their administrators and respectable citizens are a bunch of crooks. He does not always use epithet. In a really crushing mood he just calls them politicians and businessmen. In The Politicos (1938) he exposed the politicians; the capitalists caught it in The Robber Barons (1934). This being election year, Historian Josephson explores the devious ways by which the electorate is hoodwinked while Presidents are made in smoke-filled rooms...
Sears prizes of $400 each, awarded annually to students in the Law School who have done the most brilliant work in their class during the year, were given to Jonathan E. Goldmark 3L, of White Plains, N. Y.; Matthew J. Kust 3L, of Madison, Wis.; Carl Cherin 2L, of Denmark, Wis.; and Dudley B. Tenney 2L, of Washington...