Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gailor, 79, well-beloved Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, onetime (1919-25) Presiding Bishop; chancellor of the University of the South (Sewanee); after long illness; in Sewanee. A courageous, quick-witted broad-churchman, he was one of Tennessee's two outstanding citizens (the other: Cordell Hull). Rt. Rev. James Matthew Maxon, 60, hardworking, cigar-smoking Bishop Coadjutor, automatically succeeds...
Henry Ford, who had paid $100,000 for radio-broadcast rights, changed seats in his family box to avoid photographers. Babe Ruth sat in the Press box with a white carnation in his buttonhole. In Detroit, Matthew Golden, of Old Saybrook, Conn., proudly announced that he was 72 and had not missed a game since 1903. In Chicago, one George Alms slept on the sidewalk in a tar-paper bag to keep his place at the head of a ticket line. It was the "World Series," between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, for the professional baseball championship...
...League for Industrial Democracy. Trinity's rector-elect was once arrested with Norman Thomas for unlawful assemblage at a Paterson, N. J. silk strike. His most notable exploit in eleven years as assistant rector of a Brooklyn church was to lose the parish its richest member, onetime President Matthew Scott Sloan of Brooklyn Edison Co. who objected to the young man holding labor demonstrations in front of his office. Rev. Lorin Bradford Young, 32, accepted the San Francisco call, packed up and went there...
Obscure by preference and by the nature of his functions, and an officer of the University unknown to students who followed the relatively straight and narrow path, was Matthew Luce '91, Regent. On Monday, July 1, the University News Office published the shortest release it has issued: "The resignation of Matthew Luce '91 as Regent of Harvard was announced today. Mr. Luce has been Regent since...
...local choristers have long sung like professionals. Cincinnati's biennial festival took five days last week. Soloists were there from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Seven hundred schoolchildren sang at the Saturday matinee. Trained adults were well equal to Mendelssohn's Elijah, to Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Conductor Eugene Goossens had prepared three premieres especially for the occasion: Atalanta in Calydon, skillfully designed by Granville Bantock; La Belle Dame sans Merci, a rambling peroration by Cyril Scott; a sonorous Stabat Mater by Cincinnati's own Martin G. Dumler...