Word: sherman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seal fisheries dispute with England and defending the McKinley Tariff were his first big jobs, both successful. President Harrison made him a Federal judge in Ohio. He handed down the decision dissolving the cast-iron pipe monopoly-first vital effect of the Sherman anti-trust law. President Roosevelt, the trustbuster, offered him twice a Supreme Court appointment but he declined...
Engaged. Jean Dawes, daughter of Rufus Cutler Dawes of Evanston, Ill., public utilities magnate, brother of Vice President Dawes; to Robert Trowbridge Sherman, son of Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Sherman, of Evanston...
Along many a U.S. highway run parallel telephone and telegraph wires. Last week it appeared probable that future U. S. highways will have but one line of posts and wires. Reason: President Walter Sherman Gifford of A. T. & T. announced the signing of important nonexclusive contracts with Western Union. Telegrams may now be sent over long-distance telephone wires. Also at the service of Western Union for transmission of facsimile messages, is A. T. & T.'s telephoto system. To many, these contracts presaged the gradual scrapping of the Western Union plant and ever-increasing reliance on the service...
Meanwhile, off Sandhamn, Sweden, Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan sailed H. B. Plant's Saleema to win the first of a series of international six-metre yacht races for the Scandinavian Gold Cup. Close was the finish, with a Dutch boat second, a Finnish third, a Swedish fourth...
President Walter Sherman Gifford of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. summed up the results of the decision: "We are disappointed . . . but it will not make any change in our policy. . . . Tap ping or otherwise tampering with telephone lines is an unlawful trespass upon the property of the companies which they will continue to resist. ... An act of Congress, such as the Chief Justice refers to, would exclude evidence obtained by government agents in this...