Word: sherman
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...result of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, in which Sherman lost 2,500 men, a Union Army surgeon who lost a leg there named his next son Kenesaw Mountain Landis. "Thus," observed Biographer Henry F. Pringle, "was the blunder of General Sherman immortalized." Last week frosty old Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis saw a wish fulfilled. Baseballmen meeting in Atlanta fed him fried chicken, then stuffed him in a car, drove to Marietta, Ga., where the City Council presented him with "a little farm where I can look out and see Kennesaw Mountain...
...early 1900s, Henry Clapp Sherman, now a professor at Columbia, discovered the value of minerals-iron, calcium, phosphorus. Then came the researches on vitamins, beginning with the discovery of a "vitamine" (B) by a Pole, Casimir Funk...
...trustbusting eye of the Justice Department's Thurman Arnold, this spread between farm and shop prices has looked wide enough to drive a good big Sherman Act investigation into. Last week, Arnold served notice on the food industry that the investigation was under way. First up for scrutiny were 18 "situations," ranging from fruits to fish. Sample complaints: that in some places bakers' associations kept prices a cent a loaf too high; that packers in one city upped prices an average of 5? a pound by fixing slaughtering quotas...
Phillips Brooks House has already aided in forming the independent committee at Radcliffe. Last spring langdon B. Gilkey '40 and Harry Newman '42 introduces the idea to Dean Sherman of Radcliffe and Miss Parker, and last week Newman sent a hundred copies of an illustrated P. B. H. booklet with information for volunteers to aid the committee...
Birmingham is almost a T. C. I. creation. When General Sherman marched to the sea, Birmingham was part cornfield, part foul-smelling swamp. In the '70s some damyankee speculators swooped down, began exploiting the rich, freak coal, iron and limestone deposits. Called "The Magic City," Birmingham spent its youth in filth, poverty, lawlessness. At one time it was called The Murder Capital of the World. When control of T. C. I. switched to U. S. Steel in 1907, Birmingham began to grow up. Slowly, painfully, the town spread out, cleaned up. Bursting with faith in the city...