Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seasoned jnovie star, he turned to nod to the spectators. They saw a lank, dark-mustached man in a rumpled, ill-fitting grey suit, his scrawny neck sticking out of a too-large collar. He did not look like a formidable adversary for Maine's portly, assured Owen Brewster. It was because of Senator Brewster, the chairman of the committee, that Howard Hughes was there. For two weeks they had shot at each other in the newspapers. Now their duel was to be resumed under oath...
...whatever on the $18 million it invested in Howard Hughes's mammoth wooden flying boat; and why it had received only one unusable aircraft for the $22 million it sank in Hughes's XF-11 photo-reconnaissance plane. But there was another more pressing point, and Senator Brewster went rapidly...
...that "no undue delicacy will delay our taking up ... things of a more personal character." With no delicacy whatever, Hughes launched into his accusation. "I charge specifically that during a luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel [in Washington] in the week beginning Feb. 10, 1947, in the suite of Senator Brewster, that the Senator told me in so many words that if I would agree to merge Trans World Airline [which Hughes controls by owning 46% of its stock] with Pan American and would go along with his community airline bill, there would be no further hearings in this matter...
...investigation proceeded, Howard Hughes in California exchanged long-range insults with Maine's Senator Owen Brewster, chairman of the full senatorial committee. Speaking as chief stockholder of T.W.A., Hughes proclaimed (in a series of signed articles in the Hearst papers) that the real reason behind the investigation was Hughes's refusal to accept an offer of merger with Brewster's good friend Juan Trippe of Pan-American. In Washington, Brewster promptly offered to waive congressional immunity and take the stand. He piously referred newsmen to Nehemiah 6* for his answer to Hughes...
Meet the Press (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual). Four newsmen with plenty to ask Senator Owen Brewster...