Word: sherman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediate reason for Harry Sinclair's pronunciamento was a small loss on Consolidated's operations in the first quarter (figures not made public). Since last year when the Government convicted a batch of the major oil companies under the Sherman Act, fear of further anti-trust suits has kept oilmen from attempting to do anything about relieving the market of distress gasoline stocks, which have reached an unwieldy total. Refiners now get an average of .7 cents a gallon less than they did last year. Crude production, however, has been kept within reasonable bounds by State proration laws...
...haired Lady Lindsay prepared the press for the goodwill visit of the King and Queen by commenting on the bad manners of the U. S. press as she told them how Americans would have to behave. The newshens answered her back, unimpressed by the fact that she was Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, heiress of the late Colgate Hoyt (banker) of Oyster Bay, N. Y., and used to be a landscape gardener before Ronald Lindsay, called her to England to be his second wife...
Thomas V. Healey, Sherman Hoar, Ward M. Hussey, William C. Hurtt, Paul E. Illman, Jr., Bartow Kelley, Robert A. Krancer, James D. Lightbody, Jr., Charles D. Lutz, Jr., Torbert H. Macdonald, Stephen L. Madey, Howard P. Mendel, August R. Meyer, George S. Olive, Jr., Peter E. Pratt, Thomas H. E. Quimby, Edward C. K. Read, Edward G. Robinson...
...Chinese War would see Japan's morale crack. G. E. R. Gedye said the Czechoslovakian Army would fight before it would yield. And long ago, before modern methods of communication made foreign correspondence a large and thriving profession, the London Times asserted that, in capturing Atlanta, Sherman had merely lengthened his lines of communication to the point where he had become easy Confederate prey...
...suggested that the German Government would be willing to endow a German language scholarship. He said he knew of no Nazi-subsidized professorship in the U. S. but that he had sent German books as prizes to students of German in some 25 Southern universities. Tampa's President Sherman, standing by his story, snorted: "Why would I wish to insult him? He admits that I did insult him and I admit that I insulted him all I was able...