Word: sherman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene had shifted from Washington to Chicago's bustling Hotel Sherman, to the 19th convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. There two men who have written most of the farm legislation of the New Deal finally saw the parting of their ways at hand...
...rivers, hunger, thirst. He panned a few ounces of gold but gave it up to become a sailor, trapper, steamboat ticket speculator. In San Francisco he studied law, became a prominent citizen, headed the forces opposed to the Vigilantes, met and disliked William Tecumseh ("War is Hell'') Sherman who was then simply a California banker and commander of the California militia. In the Civil War, Wistar was wounded four times, saw noteworthy action at Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg and elsewhere, was once deprived of his command because, he said, of the enmity of General Benjamin Butler...
...pneumonia." As Pennsylvania's deer-hunting season opened, Vice President John Nance Garner posed for photographers with a shotgun, set forth with nine Senators, shot down a 120-pound four-point buck, hoisted the carcass over his shoulders, posed some more until Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton cracked: "That deer's been photographed so much it's got Kleig eyes...
...Robinson '38, Arlington; Isadore N. Rosenberg '40, Boston; Sidney Rosenberg '40, Revere; Sidney D. Ross '39, Lynn; Leon N. Satenstein '39, Malden; Lorey A. Schreiber '39, Plymouth; William F. Schreiter '38, Walpole; Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Roxbury; Douglas H. Sears '40, West Newton; Julius L. Shack '39, Mattapan; Henry Sherman '38, Mattapan; William Siegel '39, Mattapan; Eliot N. Silverman '38, Brookline; Theodore Singer '38, Dorchester; Daniel T. Skinner '38, Roxbury; Ralph I. Smith '38, Braintree...
...demands, the U. S. Department of Justice made a nine-month investigation this year, began presenting evidence to a special Federal Grand Jury in Milwaukee last September. The jury is still in session, but A. F. C. members last week were unanimously confident of victory under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Said new A. F. C. President Owen Lewis Coon: "I can see the breaking of monopoly ahead in this business, and I can see the breaking up of the business into smaller units, and there may once again be 1,500 independent finance companies...