Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solid Senders in Chicago. When traffic lights in Chicago's Loop flash red Saturday night, cars often line up for a solid block. At the Sherman Hotel, customers stand eight deep at the long Celtic Bar; downstairs in the Panther Room, where a normal New Year's crowd is 1,100, nearly 2,500 swing-loving youngsters cramp in to hear the solid-sending of Glenn Miller's band...
...tricks and tactics were not essentially new. An old-fashioned ambush broke the back of Britain's armored forces in Libya. Tobruk and Matrûh fell to typical shock assaults by land and air. In the U.S. Civil War, Stonewall Jackson and William Tecumseh Sherman won battles and made great advances just as Rommel did-by forced marches and surprise attacks when, according to the rules, their armies should have been resting for the next round...
...Endicott (Endicott-Johnson shoes), visited Britain last year. They were impressed by the Home Guard School conducted by Guerrilla Tom Wintringham for the British War Office (TIME, May 25). Last week came the result: on the velvet-lawn-and-colonial-brick campus of Middlesex School at Concord, Major General Sherman Miles, Commander of the First Corps Area, abetted by the Committee, opened a tactical school. Purpose: to teach guerrilla-warfare methods to State Guards. The Commandant is Lawyer Howard, now a lieutenant colonel...
...Philo Sherman Bennett Prize of $50, for the best essay on the principles of free government, was won by Donald H. Shaw '43, of Oelwein, Iowa, for an essay "Congressional Reapportionment and Redistricting in the States...
This dictum of modern naval warfare was laid down last week by Rear Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman, captain of the great carrier Lexington, whose planes had sunk one and probably two Japanese carriers before she was sunk in turn by torpedoes and bombs delivered by determined Japanese airmen. The sinking of the Lexington ended the second round of a great heavyweight free-for-all, air ships v. surface ships. Before the Lexington's commander got home and buttoned on his reward, the golden shoulder boards of an admiral, another round had ended...