Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armor courageously tried to stop the German onrush along the road to Sbeïtla. Lieut. Colonel Louis V. Hightower put his General Sherman tank between the advancing Germans and a fleeing motorized column. Hightower's tank held off nine Mark IVs and a Mark VI, destroyed four of them and damaged the Mark VI before a shell exploded in one of his gas tanks. Hightower shouted to his crew: "Git!" They got, jumping out "like peas from a hot pod." The other, thin-skinned vehicles had been saved...
...Justice Department's Anti-Trust division, the irreverent, irrepressible Assistant Attorney General had long since reached a dead end. First capital, then labor had been irritated by his monolithic determination to enforce the Sherman and Clayton anti-trust laws. Two years ago Arnold's brisk roundup of labor unions for trade-restraining practices was brought to an abrupt halt. The Supreme Court virtually forbade anti-trust prosecution of organized labor...
...decision* the Court upheld the April 1941 conviction of A.M.A. and its Washington affiliate of violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The organizations were fined $2,500 and $1,500 respectively for influencing physicians and hospitals to boycott Group Health Association, Inc., to which 3,300 Government workers in the District of Columbia belong...
...Court's opinion, written by Justice Owen J. Roberts, held that 1) Group Health was a "business" and thus entitled to the protection of the Sherman Act, 2) the A.M.A. was not exempt from prosecution under the act. For sponsors of the group medicine principle, the decision was a breath of new life...
...Bulkley '02, former Democratic Senator from Ohio and President of the CRIMSON in 1901, who sent congratulations and best wishes for this 70th anniversary. John Cowles, newspaper publisher and vicepresident of LOOK magazine, was an editor, as was Corliss Lamont '24, well-known teacher and radical author. Roger Sherman Greene '01, former President, has been a loading diplomat in the Far East...