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...American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s Manhattan offices at No. 195 Broadway fortnight ago, file clerks checked & counted proxies in preparation for the annual meeting of the world's biggest private enterprise. One proxy was sent to the office of President Walter Sherman Gifford. Smiling, he read: "Don't let them get you mad, Mr. Gifford." As things turned out, there was little for suave Mr. Gifford to be upset about when he faced 250 A. T. & T. stockholders at the meeting. The older member of the ubiquitous Gilbert family-Lewis-was on hand to ask an embarrassing...
...Dear General: I wish to acknowledge receipt of your telegram of Feb. 15 in which you express your opposition to the President's proposal concerning the Supreme Court. . . ." Thus wrote Indiana's pro-Roosevelt Senator Sherman ("Shay") Minton in a letter addressed to General Arthur St. Clair, Indianapolis...
...Bowie, Md. racetrack Vice President John Nance Garner, Senators Nathan Lynn Bachtnan of Tennessee and Sherman Minton of Indiana bet $2 each on Minton, a rank outsider, won $24.90 apiece when Minton came in first...
Taking President Roosevelt's side of the question are Bedford Johnson '40, Sherman Tonkonow '40, and William F. Pennebaker '40. Concluding meet this year will be with Groton on May 7, following which will be tryouts for the Coolidge Debating Prize for Freshmen and the H-Y-P triangular contest...
...Said Nutritionist Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia University to the New York Academy of Medicine: ''Simple redistribution of the present expenditures for food, and this without omitting any article of food to which any consumer is accustomed, but merely by easy shifting of relative proportions, can undoubtedly contribute greatly to the advancement of the standard of health and vitality in the coming years" Eaters for longevity should take all the milk, green and yellow vegetables and fruits which they can stomach...