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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MATTHEW ROCKEFELLER Pocantico Hill Kinderhook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...years natives of southern Mexico have told stories of monstrous stone heads buried in the earth. In 1938 Matthew William Stirling, heading a joint expedition of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society, unearthed in Veracruz a carved stone head six feet high. This year, hacking around in the Tabasco jungle, he discovered five more heads, several bigger than the Veracruz find. Last week the National Geographic Society released a picture of one of them, estimated to weigh 20 tons or more. It is 8 ft. i in. high, 20 ft. 10 in. around. Flat-faced, blunt-featured, almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Stone Faces | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...Hatch's friends had motives, too. With him, for instance, were West Virginia's Rush Holt & Matthew Neely, who last week, after years of venomous enmity, were reconciled in time of peril. Young Mr. Holt is up for reelection; Mr. Neely wants to be Governor. To win, they must break down the powerful Kump-Holt-Hogg* Statehouse machine. They hit the sawdust trail for Mr. Hatch. In his ranks were also Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark, poignantly interested in crippling the State organization of Governor Lloyd Crow Stark; Georgia's George & Russell, who want to clip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Senate Comes Clean | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Chicago police rounded up a citizen whose name would have sent cold shivers down their backs ten years ago. The man: Matthew Capone, 31 (youngest, favorite brother of Al Capone), wanted for questioning about a brawl in a barbecue stand over an argument about payment of a dinner check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Learned from blind, too-sympathetic Representative Matthew A. Dunn, of Pennsylvania, that he would not seek re-election because his health had been overtaxed by constituents he could not help to jobs, money, food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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