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...cultivated voice. It carried a New England twang. Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, lolling in the presiding officer's chair, peered toward the rear of the Chamber. A stocky man with a large flat face and slightly twisted nose was standing at a desk. Mr. Minton, who went to the Senate only last January, had never seen the gentleman open his mouth before except 1) to take a chew of Five Brothers* and squirt tobacco juice at the spittoon beside his chair; 2) to pass the time of day with one of his strolling colleagues; 3) to vote...
...Sherman Brayton, Stephen H. Brennan, Jr., Charles H. Cretsmeyer, John W. Erhard, Herbert L. Furse, William T. Glendinning, Peter P. Hale, John H. Herrick, Douglas B. Kitchel, Captain Carroll R. Layman, Nathanael A. Lemke, Hertram M. Litman, Alexander C. Northrop, Winslow L. Pettingell, Theodore Plotkin, William W. Shirk, Robert C. Stuart, Adoniram J. Wells, Jr. William H. Wright, Jr. Manager, George H. Spencer...
First calamity was the death of Director Lowell Sherman from pneumonia, when he had shot about one-third of the picture. Second was an attack of pneumonia for Miriam Hopkins, in the middle of a ballroom scene erected on a rented Pathe lot. Director Rouben Mamoulian, hired to replace Sherman, scrapped all the scenes made by his predecessor. A sequence carefully pieced together from 6,000 ft. of negative was burned in a projection machine and had to be recut, which took a week. During these tribulations, Jock Whitney flew to the coast nine times. Final difficulties with Becky Sharp...
Springfield, Mass. has four newspapers, all of them owned by big, tough Sherman Hoar Bowles. Besides the famed Republican founded by his ancestors, there are the Morning Union, Evening Union and the somewhat less respected Daily News...
...crack linotype operators on the News, Kenneth Irving Taylor, to quit his machine and take the foremanship of the composing room. Compositor Taylor, mild-mannered, bespectacled, member of the Springfield Board of Public Welfare, refused on grounds that his presidency of the local union forbade his being a boss. Sherman Bowles promptly fired him. Out, on their president's heels, walked every other typesetter in the four newspaper shops. Editors of both evening papers gathered together what type had been set, borrowed some type forms from the morning editions, rolled out a joint edition...