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Winks drew inspiration from an earlier Americanbook, J. Prince's Sketches of EminentShoemakers, published in Boston in 1848.Prince reports that Roger Sherman, Connecticutsigner of the Declaration of Independence andConstitution, began life as a shoemakers. Whileserving on an appropriations committee during theRevolutionary War, Sherman uncovered fraud in anarmy shoe contract and proved his case byspecifying the market price of the leather andworkmanship. Prince argues, "This incident willserve to illustrate the advantage which may oftenbe derived from the election of practicalmen to fill the office of legislators." (Hisitalics...
Fine Arts Department Chair John K. G. Sherman,who is Boardman professor of Fine Arts, saidKoerner's tenure offer represents a much-neededchange in the department's treatment of assistantand associate professors...
...creative act, those feats of inspiration and perseverance that move civilization forward. In Brooklyn Bridge and The Statue of Liberty, Burns chronicled the building of great structures that came to symbolize far more than stone and steel. What stands out most in The Civil War is the men -- Lee, Sherman, Lincoln -- who shaped events by the force of their vision and eloquence. In Huey Long, his marvelous portrait of the Louisiana demagogue, Burns seems attracted as much as repelled by his subject: the amassing of power can be a creative...
Cancellation of the bomber would be the latest blow to California's struggling aerospace and defense industry, which accounted for 15% of the state's economy in the late 1960s but only about 7% today. "The average worker has been laid off and called back many times," says Bonnie Sherman, a vocational counselor for jobless defense employees in Southern California. "They used to say, 'That's O.K., I'll run over to Northrop or Hughes.' But the government isn't giving these corporations the contracts they are used to," she adds. "We're in a peace economy...
...laudatory epithets of Army magazine aside, the administration's warriors are not the moral superiors of Sherman and Oppenheimer. They are the best that the warrior bureaucracy can produce and nothing more...