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Ervine wrote his play three years ago and has been waiting ever since to find the moment for Whitford Kane to take the lead. The wait has been worth while. As Donaghreagh's leading grocer, philosopher, and friend, Mr. Kane is little short of ideal. Then there is Hiram Sherman, portly and bouncing, who raises his pleasant voice all through the evening as the town's new minister. It would almost seem that Ervine wrote the part for him also. The rest of the cast, Helen Trenholme as Agnes Boyd, William Post, Jr. as John Haslett, Eda Heinemann and Grace...
...plot, which is well unravelled from the first scene. But the charm of the play is the deftness of his unravelling. It is a conflict of mellow experience against the force of change which comes crying to the small village in the person of the Reverend Ernest Dunwoody (Hiram Sherman) and the new grocer (William Post, Jr.), bent on taking the trade from Boyd's shop...
...Roosevelt had presented him the only military award he had not previously received, the Distinguished Service Cross, the erect, silver-haired, kindly-faced old man walked into his darkened War Department office. On its walls hung oil portraits of the five U. S. Generals of the Armies: Washington, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Pershing. On its neat, massive desk stood a single memento: an old World Series baseball with fading autographs. Quizzed by a battery of surrounding newshawks, he had slow, measured words of hope for the British. Later, in a broadcast, he had a sober, grim warning for Americans: "We must...
Captain: Sherman Gray...
Taking advantage of the Sherman Act's "vagueness" (favorite corporation lawyer's complaint), Arnold installed his own definition of trade restraints, his own prosecuting technique. Instead of busting merely big corporations, he went after all industrial situations where he smelt a fishy price. Usually he brings criminal rather than civil actions. If his victims reform their ways thoroughly enough, Arnold then sometimes signs with them a consent decree, nol-pros the criminal action. High-minded businessmen like General Motors' Alfred Sloan (who fought a criminal suit in court rather than sign away G. M.'s profitable...