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...nominated I will not accept; if elected I will not serve," wrote General William Tecumseh Sherman to the Republican convention of 1884, in the most emphatic, most widely quoted (and misquoted)* nolo episcopari on record. Last week Minnesota's outspoken Harold Stassen as emphatically announced his determination to win the Republican nomination in 1948. The formal Stassen bid, 18 months before convention time, was as unparalleled as General Sherman's brusque withdrawal...
Said foreign-policy expert Arthur Vandenberg: "I am not a candidate . . . and I am anticipating no campaign in my behalf." That left the door carefully ajar. To a reporter's question about a draft call, he quipped: "You mean I don't have any of Sherman's blood...
From all the cautious sidestepping it was obvious that none of the potential candidates was anywhere near as determined as old General Sherman. It was even more obvious that none of them would agree with another, less well-known Shermanism: "If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank...
Other Weapons. Labor unions have been fined before, notably in the Danbury Hatters case in 1912, when union members were forced to cough up almost $300,000 because they organized a national boycott of D. E. Loewe & Co. hats. The hatters were sued under the Sherman antitrust act. In other ways unions have been forced to pay through the nose for various unwise acts. In 1922, when U.M.W. members killed 19 strikebreakers and wrecked the mine of the Southern Illinois Coal Co. near Herrin, the U.M.W. settled out of court for around $700,000. But never had any union treasury...
Last week Sherman Bowles handed all his nonstriking help a week's pay for no work, said in a press release that it was "impossible to do business with the I.T.U." But nobody in Springfield was surprised to see him doing business with bespectacled Robert C. Kirkpatrick, the union's international representative. He was already calling him "Bob." And when Bob got a troublesome ear ailment, Bowles arranged for him to visit a clinic. So far he hadn't asked Bob up to the big Bowles house on Crescent Hill, which the sheriff had just sold...