Word: matters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it matters very much, but Secretary of War Hurley is not a Roman Catholic. If he were, what a blow to Col. Bill Donovan, Mr. Hoover's ex-friend, who had to be shelved because he confessed that faith. It may be that the Catholics claim Pat Hurley, but I know better. As I say, not that it matters except as such things are made to matter by the press, to which your magazine stands as a shining corrective...
...Hoover owes to the country a direct, definite and positive declaration on this subject. . . . Mr. Shattuck's denial by no means disposes of the matter. . . . A great many people will accept the evidence as proving that the President has been participating in the secret conspiracy against the interests of his own countrymen. . . . If Governor Smith had been elected President last year and had such references to him as President been disclosed . . . impeachment proceedings would have been discussed in the House of Representatives before...
Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York proclaimed a technical "emergency" in the matter of his wages, had his Board of Estimate raise him from $25,000 to $40,000 per annum, thus becoming the highest-paid public official in the land excepting the U. S. President ($75,000). Defending the idea, said he: "I don't need the money. If it became a sporting proposition, I'd bet on the turn of a coin the amount of the raise...
...matter of choosing suitable royalty to adorn the frontispiece has become even more difficult. After 166 years of continuous publishing the editors decorated the flyleaf of the 1929 volume with the likeness of Amanullah of Afghanistan. Scarcely had the presses stopped rolling than Amanullah abdicated, fled his country, became the scandal of European chancellories...
...Matter. Reina was a Hollywood cocotte, "a parasite by nature." She got a good man, but couldn't keep him. Olive, a Baptist from Salt Lake City, had an itch for men of culture. She died in Manhattan, after marrying one of many. Ellen wanted to be an artist. She found her opposite number in Paris, but he left her; then, she tried to make second bests do. Lucia was born on the Riviera, but she went to Paris to learn about love. When she was tired of being an old man's darling, she tried a young...