Word: mcmath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Springs was proud of Sid McMath, home-town boy, ex-Marine officer, winner of the Silver Star, courageous politician. As prosecuting attorney, he had broken the 20-year rule of Mayor Leo Patrick McLaughlin, whose bland refusal to enforce the law had made Hot Springs a sanctuary for every gambler, gangster and fast-dollar man in the country. As soon as he took office on the first of the year, the new prosecutor closed Hot Springs' gambling spots and got McLaughlin himself indicted for corruption in office. McLaughlin did not even try to run for reelection. Dopesters rated Sidney...
Early one morning last week, Sid McMath rushed into his office. His shirt and trousers were rumpled, his face haggard and unshaven. The reporters were waiting. McMath had two folded sheets of yellow paper in his hand. On them, he had written a statement in pencil...
That was about all there was to say, except to ask that a special grand jury be called to investigate the killing. Judge Clyde H. Brown, McMath's close friend and law partner, who had run and won with him in last November's election, said he would do that...
Most famed of all amateur astronomers is Robert Raynolds McMath, 51, who spends as little time as possible as chairman of Detroit's Motors Metal Manufacturing Co., as much as possible in the elaborate McMath-Hulbert Observatory near Pontiac. Fifteen years ago, Engineer McMath built a small 4-inch telescope for his father, became so fascinated at his first view of Jupiter's satellites and the moon's mountains that he has been designing astronomical instruments ever since. He has made the world's best motion pictures of solar phenomena, and his films are now used...