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...offered to pay the bootblack remarked: "Times are hard and friends are scarce. We'll forget the dime." Said the customer: "Oh, I can afford it all right. I've got steady work with the telephone company." Asked what his job was, he introduced himself as Walter Sherman Gifford, president of A. T. & T. After a mass in Sioux City, Iowa's cathedral, collectors found that a stranger in the congregation had put a $50 bill in the collection box. They decided it was a mistake, offered to return it. Said the stranger: "That was no mistake...
...during William Tecumseh Sherman's famed March to the Sea, Union soldiers stole two pigs from the Georgia estate of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. Last week Sherman's grandnephew, Lieutenant John B. Sherman, sent two Poland-China pigs to Captain Thomas Jefferson Davis at the War Department in Washington. He enclosed a note...
...answer to your claim for property stolen by General William T. Sherman during his stroll through Georgia, it gives me great pleasure to reimburse, in kind, you for the property taken...
...including much of that where the Century of Progress Exposition now stands, were "made" by ashes and earth carted off for disposal by the tunnel freight system and dumped along the lake front. Despite all this the tunnel system went upon the rocks in 1912, had to be reorganized. Sherman Weld Tracy, former railroad man, then fortyish, now sixtyish and grey-haired, was put in charge. Since then he has kept the tunnels out of receivership but it is no secret that they have never been a very profitable venture. Meantime Ogden Armour and E. H. Harriman are dead. Their...
...Swift & Co.. Allen F. Moore (onetime Republican Congressman from Illinois), Herbert J. Blum (oldtime grain operator). His charge: that in 1928 he sold short 950,000 bushels of July corn, that they and others long 9,000,000 bushels of corn engineered a "corner" in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, forcing up prices, causing him a loss of $300,000. Under the anti-trust law, a victim may collect damages equal to three times his losses. Multiplying by three and adding $100,000 for legal expenses, Mr. Backus sued...