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General William Tecumseh Sherman left a bitter record of a professional soldier's everlasting struggle to make ends meet. When he was a lieutenant he wrote: "Had it not been for the $1,500 I had made in the store at Coloma [Calif.], I could not have lived through the winter." Sherman resigned and even when the Civil War broke out hesitated to go in again because "I did not and will not volunteer for three months because I cannot throw my family on the cold charity of the world...
...Sinek relaxes not only by playing polo ("golf is an old man's Came"). He also throws massive parties for his friends. At a dinner he gave for some railroad men in 1938, Sinek had two circus elephants brought into the grand ballroom of Chicago's Hotel Sherman to entertain the guests...
...subcommittee's chief conclusion: that "severe self-imposed rationing . . . if made by tacit agreement between the distillers, is a violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the Sherman Antitrust...
...Sherman Billingsley knew what trouble was; he had been in it, off & on, ever since he was a boy in Oklahoma...
Born in Enid, John Sherman Billings ley quit school after the fourth grade. At twelve he had his own soda-pop stand...