Word: matt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...night of Aug. 5, 1930, one Kin Hanna, owner of an inn near Jay, N. Y. had a painful experience. He and his father-in-law Matt Cobb were beaten, gagged and bound by four men who then took $750 from the till and made their getaway...
...Captain Matt Leach, head of Indiana's State Police, says that "because of their viciousness and the way they operate, the Brady mob is going to make Dillinger look like a neophyte." This sombre testimonial was justified shortly after the Goodland bank robbery. Pursued by two policemen, Brady & friends hid behind a church at a crossroads. When the officers drove up, the gang opened fire with automatic rifles and shotguns. Trooper Paul Minneman fell out of the car. Brady walked over to him. "This------'s dead," he said...
...Said Matt Henson, 72-year-old Negro who is the sole surviving member of Admiral Robert Edwin Peary's party that trekked to the Pole in 1909: "It was a sight harder...
After noting the lack of discipline and direction which marked the Republican campaign of 1936, Master Mind Michelson pronounced: 'The party, in my opinion, needs a Mark Hanna, or a Matt Quay." First declaring that he does not know Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton well enough to surmise whether he has the requisite "iron in his soul'' to ride roughshod over the wishes of this or that segment of his followers, Mr. Michelson indicated his opinion by suggesting another candidate: Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. "He is a vigorous...
That Parthian arrow was as cruel as it was inaccurate. Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, is "old" to be sure, 63 fateful years in all. But it has never been "shabby." Under the masterful direction of Col. Matt J. Winn, Churchill Downs . . . struggling with small means, was never "shabby" even in the old days. Under Col. Winn's guidance, each year the Downs's seating capacity has been added to and its comfort and its beauty increased. This year, with an expenditure of over $200,000 the entire Churchill Downs plant has been transformed until...