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...Sapio, Tammany boss and Harriman's right hand man, added: "A country-club quartet-a small clique of self-appointed and self-anointed men who have never exposed themselves to the mandate of a national election-now rules the White House and runs our nation. These men-Sherman Adams, Charles Wilson, George Humphrey and John Foster Dulles-are the Richelieus and Rasputins of 20th century America...
Postwar: At the insistence of Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower, Airman Norstad was named War Department director of plans and operations. While Air generals and Navy admirals brawled in public, Norstad and the late Admiral Forrest Sherman quietly conferred, arrived at agreement on service unification. Norstad became Air Force operations chief in 1947, went to Germany in 1950 as commander in chief of the U.S. Air Force in Europe, was named Al Gruenther's deputy air commander in July, 1953. At NATO Norstad shaped atomic strategy, built up the air base network-communications system-and radar-warning service...
...meetings opened yesterday afternoon with an address by Mildred P. Sherman, Dean of College Relations...
Your March 19 story of Mordecai Johnson and Howard University is a bright chapter in the history of American education. You can add to the list of distinguished alumni of Howard the name of Charles Dunbar Sherman, Finance Minister of Liberia and Economic Adviser...
...field of sedition" when it passed the 1940 Smith Act and succeeding anti-subversive statutes. State laws are "in no sense uniform," and their enforcement could present "serious danger of conflict" with federal antisubversion operations. In the strongest dissent that Earl Warren has ever faced, Justices Stanley Reed, Sherman Minton and Harold Burton argued that "in the responsibility of national and local governments to protect themselves against sedition, there is no 'dominant interest' . . . Congress has not, in any of its statutes relating to sedition, specifically barred the exercise of state power to punish the same acts under state...