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Word: sherm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skunk. Sherm was no stranger to the labor board. Back in 1937, nine of his waiters told the board that he had bounced them for joining a union; 2½ years later, the state court of appeals bounced them back to Billingsley, told him to cough up back pay. Four of last week's six witnesses had been fired, a fifth had quit, the sixth had been suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...dishwasher named José Nozario said that one day before the election he and other kitchen help were summoned upstairs for drinks, cigarettes and neckties-just like Sherm's customers. Said José: "I sat entranced. I never saw anything so pretty." Sherm advised them to vote against the union. They did. The day after the election, he gave them $100 apiece, and $500 to the head pot-wrestler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...Garter. At week's end, Sherm was waiting to fight back, just as though he didn't have a couple of other legal brawls on his hands. In the U.S. district court in New York, he was being sued for $100,000 by one Raymond Pillois of Paris, who thought that would be a reasonable fee for getting Billingsley an exclusive contract as American agent for a French perfume. In Baltimore, for a change, Sherm was suing. Once more in his career he was trying to get someone to stop using the name Stork Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

This time it was blonde Bettye Mills's Stork Club, located on a lurid strip of honky-tonks known as The Block. Bettye not only serves drinks, she has strippers for entertainment. And for free she tosses the mob her garter every night. Such goings-on, Sherm felt, would "impair and cause severe damage" to his reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nothing So Pretty | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Heavy hitters for the Crimson were rightfielder Sherm Clark and catcher Bill Harding, each with two hits in four trips to the plate. Lestfielder Klepper led the Seabees attack, also with two for four. HARVARD ab li po a e Clark, rf 4 2 1 0 0 Flattery, rb 5 0 7 0 0 Chapple, 2b 5 1 1 2 0 Boston, cf 2 1 1 0 0 Lutz, 3b 4 1 3 4 0 Ross 1 0 0 0 0 Harding, c 4 2 7 2 0 Conlon, lf 4 0 1 0 0 Falsey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEABEES DOWN CRIMSON NINE | 6/6/1944 | See Source »

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