Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explain the facts, the U.S. last week sent to Caracas a mission of top-drawer experts: Thomas C. Mann, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs; Matthew V. Carson Jr., the Texas-lawyer-turned-naval-captain, who runs the voluntary restriction program; Ernest Thompson, chairman of the powerful Texas Railroad Commission, which controls oil production in the state that produces nearly half of U.S. oil; and Willis C. Armstrong, director of the State Department's Office of International Resources. Because Canada is also affected by U.S. restrictions, Canada's Ambassador to Venezuela joined the talks. Some...
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Many other recipe names are equally farfetched, e.g., Matthew Punch ("because it is such a nice punch for serving at Christmas time"), Pentecost Cake (black devil's food), and Prophet's Pulse (a vegetable and egg dish). For church suppers, Author O'Brien recommends what she calls a Scripture Cake: 4½ cups I Kings 4:22 (flour...
...Died. Matthew Smith, 64, secretary of the Mechanics Educational Society of America, and sometime maverick of U.S. labor, who in 1942 created the Confederated Unions of America to buck the hegemony of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach. Articulate, Lancashire-born Matthew Smith-who stirred up the nation when he called strikes in wartime-thought that the closed shop, dues checkoffs, rigid seniority systems and party politics should be shunned by a healthy union...
Missionary zeal once beat strong in Judaism; the Pharisees, said Jesus, would "compass sea and land to make one proselyte" (Matthew 23:15). This proselytizing urge vanished in the Diaspora, but the time may have come to compass land and sea again. So thinks Robert Gordis, professor of Bible at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary and of religion at Columbia University...