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Yachtsmen, horsemen and unreconstructed Southerners are, in certain matters, hard to please. Last February Southerners howled when Union General William Tecumseh ("War Is Hell") Sherman's face appeared on a new 3? stamp (TIME...
...Sherman stamp (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 16), no South Carolinian wants to lick Sherman from the rear...
...this anniversary (Feb. 22) of Sherman's visit to my ancestral Mt. Hope here at Ridgeway my great aunts, aged 90 and 80 years, tell me of his soldiers' taking off all the silver that was not buried including a silver urn that had come to the family from General Francis Marion, "the Swamp Fox." This Yankee soldier beat the handsome silver vessel against an early blossoming plum tree until it was flat and would fit into his saddle...
However, we will use Sherman stamps and glory in the Lee-Jackson four-center...
Nearly 700,000 stockholders were pleased last week by a letter they received from Walter Sherman Gifford. As president of their American Telephone & Telegraph Co. he was able to tell them that in 1936 their company had earned full dividends on its common stock for the first time in five years. Since 1930 this $5,000,000,000 enterprise has maintained its $9 annual dividend only by dipping freely into surplus. The number of Bell telephones in service dropped from a peak of 15,500,000 in 1930 to 12,700,000 in 1933, earnings from $12.57 per share...