Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Robert Lee Williams, 79, Oklahoma's first chief justice (1907-09), third governor (1915-19), longtime U.S. judge (1919-37); of diabetes and a heart ailment; in Sherman, Tex. "Fighting Bob," a rough-&-tumble courtroom battler, helped draft Oklahoma's constitution (1906-07), then dominated its legal scene until his retirement...
Although Dean Sherman, introducing the speaker, said that the meeting was intended only for girls and that she highly disapproved of the male contingent, a spontaneous vote among the Radcliffe students persuaded her to allow the men to remain the one time...
Acting under the Taft-Hartley Act, the President appointed a fact-finding board. It was composed of Federal Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, onetime New Dealing Senator from Indiana; Mark Ethridge, liberal publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, and Dr. George W. Taylor, professor of labor relations at the Wharton School of Finance, onetime chief of the War Labor Board. It was a board which could hardly be called prejudiced against labor. Taylor was a veteran of many coal disputes...
Undaunted, however, by the unusual situation, the debaters went ahead. Rep. Sherman Miles, co-sponsor of the bill, and Dr. John F. Conlin of the Massachusetts Medical Society, held that the measure was necessary for medical progress...
...Hedges '48, Hugh M. Hill '48, and Francis S. MacNutt '46 won second prizes of $25 in the finals of the Boylston Speaking Contest at Paine Hall last night. The contest was judged by novelist Walter D. Edmonds '26, Lewis Perry, former principle of Exeter Academy, and Major-General Sherman Miles, U.S.A...