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...daughter of slaves, she moved to Atlanta from Greenville, Ga. in the 1880s, became a supreme authority on Southern cooking, prepared banquets for many a visiting President, always turned up for a job in a shiny motorcar. She claimed she learned to cook from "a Yankee lady, a Mrs. Sherman...
...press conference, a reporter asked what the President thought of a proposal by Senator Sherman Minton to make it a felony for a newspaper knowingly to publish a false statement. Jovially Franklin Roosevelt replied that he was trying to pare expenses and didn't want to build any more prisons...
...Vanderbilt Cup, blue ribbon U. S. championship for four-man teams. After 5 days of qualifying rounds and "knockout" elimination matches, the field of 28 teams narrowed down to two. Finalists were the defending champions, the Four Aces (Oswald Jacoby, David Burnstine, Howard Schenken, Merwin Maier and alternate Sherman Stearns), and a quartet of Donor Harold Vanderbilt's old teammates, headed by Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz. At the end of the 72-deal final, the Four Aces won the Cup for the fourth time in the past five years. But they came close to losing when, on the next...
...alarm, the publishers found two infringements of liberty to condemn: the attempt of a National Labor Relations Board trial examiner to get accountings of articles in the St. Mary's (Pa.) Press and a magazine, Mill and Factory; the demands of the "Black Committee," now headed by Senator Sherman Minton, to examine private papers...
...alternating high and low hurdle shuttle relay will as last year be the principal feature of the afternoon. Imported from Pennsylvania last year the race is run on the grass in the middle of the stadium. The Harvard quartet will be chosen from Mason Fernald, Sherman Hoar, John Johanson, John Sparrow, and Bill Lavorack...