Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Matthew Hill, the "best" self-advertised Washington alumnus and political lieutenant for the former president, is no longer illegally receiving a monthly salary from State funds amounting to average salary paid for two regular instructors...
Into the judges' stand trooped the irate 52, to fight it out with Managing Director Clifford W. Henderson and Contest Chairman Ephraim Watkins ("Pop") Cleveland. As their leader, the pilots delegated Designer E. Matthew Laird. Said Pilot Howard afterward: "If Mattie says we fly, we'll fly. If he says keep the ships on the ground, well do that." Both sides agreed to arbitrate. Meanwhile the racers flew...
...McAlester Penitentiary is an old man whose paintings hang in several offices of the Oklahoma State Capitol, in the prison mess hall and the warden's house. In 1898 Charles Matthew Conrad Maass suspected his wife of putting poison in his breakfast pork and sauerkraut. He fired three charges of buckshot into her. In his 33 years in jail he has painted hundreds of pictures, sold not one. Like Dannemora's artists, he too copies his pictures, sometimes from memory. Called the Mad Artist, he is irrational except for his ability to copy pictures. His subjects include...
Washington's reorganization, as announced by President Matthew Lyle Spencer who is kept well under control by the Hartley-appointed Board of Regents, is from 13 schools and colleges into four: the College of Arts & Sciences, College of Technology, Law School, Graduate School. Washington's Forestry School is considered the best west of the Mississippi. Its reduction to a department is expected to result in decreased enrollment, ultimate elimination. Other schools or colleges to be eliminated or consolidated: Music, Home Economics, Fisheries, Fine Arts, Journalism, Library, Nursing. Business Administration. The Deans of Men and Women become "personnel officers...
...accordance with Governor Hartley's lack of sympathy for it. Reason given for the whole change is the need for economy. The university administration's overhead comes to $125,000 a year. President Spencer has refused to say how much the consolidation would reduce this. Said Matthew Hill, best-known Washington alumnus: "Oppressive taxes and the public's willingness to accept any economy gives Hartley the opportunity he has wanted for eight years, to reduce the University to a liberal arts college. He would eliminate it entirely if he could get away with...