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Show General Sherman aa a Chairman. He was a famous chairman, says Myron W. Reed. I have seen him preside pre-side at the meeting of the Army of the Tennessee. Beside Sherman as a presiding pre-siding officer Speaker Rood would be a model for a statute of Diffidence. He would do it this way: "Gentlemen, in selecting officers for the Army of the Tennessee for the year to come you must exercise great care you must take time and thought and choose the right men." Then he would go down into his vest pocket and read a list of names and then say: "It is moved and seconded that these nominations pass as read. All in favor say 'aye.' " He could get more business done by a delib-f delib-f erative body than Bismarck. It happened hap-pened that someone made a motion to adjourn. "Oh," he said, "sit down, it is not time to adjourn." The presiding pre-siding officer of the gang smashers' convention was nothing to him. |