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...scene had shifted from Washington to Chicago's bustling Hotel Sherman, to the 19th convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. There two men who have written most of the farm legislation of the New Deal finally saw the parting of their ways at hand...
...Chicago, Leon A. Mitchell, onetime official greeter for the Hotel Sherman, asked $5,000 damages from Commonwealth Edison Co. and Charles Kelly, greeter for the company. Reason: when Greeter Kelly shook hands with Greeter Mitchell in an office building, Greeter Kelly "did violently, vigorously and firmly seize and squeeze with such force that the third phalanx of the first finger of the plaintiff's right hand was broken...
...rivers, hunger, thirst. He panned a few ounces of gold but gave it up to become a sailor, trapper, steamboat ticket speculator. In San Francisco he studied law, became a prominent citizen, headed the forces opposed to the Vigilantes, met and disliked William Tecumseh ("War is Hell'') Sherman who was then simply a California banker and commander of the California militia. In the Civil War, Wistar was wounded four times, saw noteworthy action at Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg and elsewhere, was once deprived of his command because, he said, of the enmity of General Benjamin Butler...
...pneumonia." As Pennsylvania's deer-hunting season opened, Vice President John Nance Garner posed for photographers with a shotgun, set forth with nine Senators, shot down a 120-pound four-point buck, hoisted the carcass over his shoulders, posed some more until Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton cracked: "That deer's been photographed so much it's got Kleig eyes...
...Robinson '38, Arlington; Isadore N. Rosenberg '40, Boston; Sidney Rosenberg '40, Revere; Sidney D. Ross '39, Lynn; Leon N. Satenstein '39, Malden; Lorey A. Schreiber '39, Plymouth; William F. Schreiter '38, Walpole; Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Roxbury; Douglas H. Sears '40, West Newton; Julius L. Shack '39, Mattapan; Henry Sherman '38, Mattapan; William Siegel '39, Mattapan; Eliot N. Silverman '38, Brookline; Theodore Singer '38, Dorchester; Daniel T. Skinner '38, Roxbury; Ralph I. Smith '38, Braintree...