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...Upheld (6-3) New York's Feinberg law, which provides that membership in subversive organizations (as listed by the State Board of Regents) is sufficient reason for firing teachers or other school employees. Wrote Justice Sherman Minton for the majority: "The school authorities have the right and duty to screen the officials, teachers and employees as to their fitness . . . One's associates, past and present, as well as one's conduct, may properly be considered in determining fitness and loyalty." Dissenting Justices: Douglas, Frankfurter and Black...
...edition of Who's Who included some newcomers. Among the entertainers: Jimmy Durante, Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca, John Wayne, Mario Lanza. In government: Perle Mesta and Mike Di Salle. In fashions: Christian Dior and Jacques Path. In the Manhattan saloon set: Sherman (Stork Club) Billingsley...
...charge: Sunbeam and its 1,200 distributors had "conspired" to fix and control their prices, specifically in the District of Columbia, Vermont, Texas and Missouri, none of which has Fair Trade laws. In the absence of such laws, charged the trustbusters, Sunbeam's minimum-price contracts violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. Sunbeam, claiming that price-cutting, far from being good for business,actually had reduced its sales, said it would fight the suit "with all the strength at our command...
...Died. Sherman Hoar Bowles,* 61, who parlayed an inherited newspaper (the Springfield, Mass. Republican) into a multimillion-dollar empire; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting with the paper founded in 1824 by his great-grandfather, Bowles finally owned large slices of Bell Aircraft Co., Manhattan's Longchamps restaurant chain, Atlas Tack Co., a Wall Street skyscraper. Involved for nearly two decades in skirmishes with his unionized Springfield employees, he tried, in 1947, to deliver his own papers from his strike-crippled Daily News plant, got fined $25 for piloting the paper's truck without a driver...
With Grant and Sherman, the President found himself backed for the first time by generals who believed as he did, that the Union's real objective was the Confederate Army. Never again would Lincoln have to complain: "Thus, often, I, who am not a specially brave man, have had to sustain the sinking courage of these professional fighters in critical times...