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Prisoner No. 45 was Herman Berman. Prisoner No. 65 was Abraham Pepper. Prisoner No. 73 was Goodman Levy. Prisoner No. 86 was Hyman Matofsky. There were, in all, 81 prisoners (five of the 86 being absent, nolle prossed or admittedly guilty). New York poultry men all, indicted under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, all being tried simultaneously in the court of Federal Judge John C. Knox, they presented several difficult problems in the administration of justice...
...when the Mexican War broke out, about thirteen hundred men had graduated from the Academy, many of whom rendered conspicuous services to their country. Lee, Bragg, Sherman, Hooker, Grant, and McCellan are but a few of the West Point names distinguish-in the war. Winnfield Scott, who captured Mexico City, wrote in 1860 this famous statement, which every Plebe knows by heart: "I give it as fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats...
...aviation. Nothing approaching its importance has been accomplished within the past two years." Thurman Harrison Bane, chief of The Aviation Corp.'s technical staff: "Doolittle's flight marks the first stage in man's conquest of flying in fog, now aviation's greatest obstacle." Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones, president of Curtiss Flying Service: "The mechanical perfection of the new instruments employed required thorough testing by an expert pilot before they could be judged." Harry Frank Guggenheim: "The results of the experiment will be made available to any manufacturers of planes or air transport operators who wish...
...present legal code of the United States has been explained so often as to have become a common-place. In the midst of the tremendous progress made by such branches of society as commerce and science, the law been slow in adapting itself to new conditions. The Sherman Anti-Trust laws, to use a familiar illustration, are already hopelessly antiquated to deal with modern business. By nature of its bulk and intimate connection with the past, the legal code is usually one of the last phases of society to adapt itself to changing environment...
Hallucinations and Religions. More women suffer from religious hallucinations than do men, at least in the Chicago experiences of George Washington University's I. C. Sherman. As many institutionalized Jews as Roman Catholics have paranoidal trends. Protestants suffer less so. Every third Protestant, every fourth Catholic, every seventh Jew has hallucinations. Half of the Protestants, one-fourth of the Catholics, none of the Jews had religions hallucinations...