Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Sherman Bowles's non-union and all but adless Daily News reached 80,000 circulation despite pickets around the building. Its circulation is now half what the entire monopoly's was before the strike. People bought it, ignoring strikers' pleas to take out-of-town papers instead. Sherman Bowles has reached a truce with his pressmen and stereotypers and hopes to talk his printers into working without a contract. His dispirited employees of the Newspaper Guild, who struck only after he fired them, might be left out in the cold if the other unions went...
...took half his band into the merchant marine with him during the war, and is now making a comeback-without one of his earlier singing stars, Perry Como. Last week Weems & his band opened in a famous jive spot, the College Inn of Chicago's Hotel Sherman, the oldest nightclub in the U.S., where Jazzmen Benny Goodman, Woody Herman and Gene Krupa made some of their loudest noises, and biggest successes...
Undaunted, the crew members laid immediate plans for a variety show this spring and for an alumnae aid appeal, both intended to raise the necessary money. These ideas were vetoed by Dean Sherman on grounds of impracticality and bad timing; for it was felt that the revue would be unable to raise enough, and any appeal to alumnae would conflict with Radcliffe's already, scheduled fund drive for the spring...
Once again the plans got snarled in red tape. Apparently unable to carry even these expenses, Dean Sherman, after consultation with President Jordon, wrote to Captain Conant, "regretting the steps that had to be taken," but reaffirming that "for financial reasons the college could not at this time undertake to continue crew...
Publisher Sherman H. Bowles (cousin of ex-OPA Boss Chester), whose four Springfield, Mass., newspapers have been on strike since last fall, crashed a picket line to deliver copies of his strike-crippled Daily News, wound up in police court. Publisher Bowles had the enterprise to pilot a delivery truck himself, lacked the foresight to carry a driver's license. Fine...