Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of General Pershing's headquarters staff. Later, he was for a while lieutenant colonel of Marshall Field's outfit, the 122nd Artillery, then colonel of the 61st Artillery. Before the end of the war he was sent back to the U.S. as commandant of Fort Sheridan, near Chicago...
...Cowed. In Washington, the people's representatives set the people no high example. Congressmen asserted their right to X cards, stood ready to fight any suggestion that they should sacrifice, too. A sly resolution by California's Senator Sheridan Downey asking Congress to waive "any special rights, privileges," raised a fearful storm, was crushed by a 62-to-2 vote. (Pepper of Florida was Downey's lone supporter...
Lost in the dust of this hurrying traffic are Juke Girl Ann Sheridan and her profession. Instead of working at it, she has to spend most of her time avoiding Richard Whorf, who runs with the labor-bait-ing packinghouse gang, and patching up Ronald Reagan, who likes the pickers. In a rather dull game of social significance and truck theft, the pickers beat the packers...
Pennsylvania's Congressman John Edward Sheridan accused a Washington cabbie of overcharging him 30?, and did not stop there: he saw the thing through to a finish. The cabbie claimed it had taken Sheridan 14 minutes to bid a lady friend goodby; Sheridan clocked himself at approximately three minutes. While the Hacker's Board of Review deliberated the matter, a Philadelphia "Democratic Fellowship Club" sent Sheridan 20? "in sympathy . . . and [to] save Strickland, the taxi driver, from losing his license." The Board of Review's finding: the cabbie had overcharged, whether Sheridan had taken 14 minutes...
Complaining in the Senate about a $16,000,000 reduction in an $18,000,000 fire-fighting appropriation proposed by the Forest Service, California's Sheridan Downey called forest-fire control "the most desperate problem in the whole U.S. today...