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...Spain, the U.S. made a brave and momentous act of leadership, and the man who took it to action, Admiral Sherman, went on to Naples to die of the weight he and other men had borne in the years beneath the sword...
...Fred Vinson Day" in the valley town of Louisa, Ky. (pop. 2,100), and 5,000 people crowded into town for the doings. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stanley Reed, Tom Clark and Sherman Minton, all the Kentucky court of appeals judges, the governors of Kentucky and nearby West Virginia were there to honor the home-town boy. They ate country ham and fried chicken as guests of cousin R. L. Vinson, a retired banker. Then came the ceremony at which a bronze plaque, bearing Chief Justice Vinson's mournfully dignified likeness, 'was dedicated. "The happiest...
...Washington, Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, announced that he would stop off at Madrid on his forthcoming tour of Western Europe. The British and French Foreign Offices nervously-and publicly-advised the U.S. against entering any military arrangement with Franco Spain...
Matthews likes to say that his outstanding job for the Navy was to get Admiral Forrest Sherman to run it. He also managed to weather some roaring storms and rough sailing. He enraged his sea dogs by recommending the firing of Admiral Louis E. Denfeld as Chief of Naval Operations during the unification battle, but gradually won them over. He made a lot of people mad, including Harry Truman, by calling for a preventive war against Russia in a Boston speech last August, but that blew over too. Thereafter, SecNav was often seen but rarely heard from...
...Bull Run, Colonel Sherman got his baptism of blood. The "sickening confusion [of] a field strewed with dead men and horses" affected him so sharply that he later warned Lincoln never to give him "a superior command." Nevertheless, the Union was in dire need of professional officers, and Lincoln gave him temporary command in Kentucky. Sherman was always an agitated smoker; his tobacco consumption kept pace, says Author Miers, with his expanding fears of responsibility. In a haze of smoke and anxiety, he ordered his "insane" countermarch from Cumberland...