Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman took with him to the White House Colonel Harry H. Vaughan, close friend since World War I, as military aide and secretary-the post held by the late Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson. As his personal secretary the President took closemouthed Matthew J. Connelly, who had become his confidential secretary after last November's election. For press secretary, the job now held by round-faced, amiable Jonathan Daniels, there was talk of the veteran Charles G. Ross, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, or younger (45) Samuel Amos O'Neal, ex-Post-Dispatch reporter...
...Railroad Co. ("Katy") feared that there would be wigs on the green at the annual stockholders' meeting in St. Louis last week. Edward N. Claughton, holder of the largest single block of Katy stock (11%), had loudly voiced his dissatisfaction with the way the Katy president, natty, gregarious Matthew S. Sloan, was treating his stockholders...
...quality of the performance, major credit was due to two U.S. generals who went in with their men: Major General William M. ("Bud") Miley, commander of the 17th Airborne, taking his outfit into combat for the first time, and Major General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, veteran airborne fighter and commander of the Airborne Army's XVIII Corps. They had led their troops across the enemy barrier on bridges of silk...
Tokyo radio reported a more violent expression of opinion. Forty-three years ago the grateful Japanese erected a stone monument, near Yokohama, to Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who opened up Japan to western trade and influence. Last fortnight members of the Imperial Rule Assistance Youth Corps, "amidst yo-heave-ho shouts," tore it down. Replacing the Perry Monument is a wooden monolith with inscriptions "to stimulate the spirit to defend the fatherland...
Massachusetts' lean, shrewd Governor Leverett Saltonstall, for whom a 1948 Presidential boomlet has already begun, made an appointment last week likely to win him friends everywhere. To the chairmanship of the State Board of Parole he named Matthew W. Bullock, 63, onetime Dartmouth track and football star, tall, broad of shoulder and coal black...