Word: ferguson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard Hughes roared on, demanding "equal rights," and got a big hand from the audience. With that, red-faced Homer Ferguson ordered the room cleared of all but reporters and cameramen...
Senate guards moved forward uncertainly, and one asked the Senator who was to be removed. "Whoever demonstrated," roared the Senator. Said the cop: "Well, sir, I guess that's everybody." Ferguson rescinded his edict...
...hearing was getting considerably out of hand, and Ferguson was looking hard for some way to get it back on the track. At one point, exasperated by Hughes's free-swinging charges, he lectured the witness: "If you believe that because of your great wealth and access to certain channels of publicity you can take control over the committee, you are mistaken. ... It is apparent that you are trying to discredit one member . . . but your prime motive is to discredit the entire committee." Angrily, Ferguson added that there would be no more "side issues." By the end of that...
Hearing the word "entertainment," Senator Ferguson grabbed at it with relief, looked around the packed room and shouted, "Where's Johnny Meyer?" Hughes said he didn't know, and laughed right in the Senator's face. Ferguson said grimly, "It isn't funny." He asked Hughes: "Will you bring Mr. Meyer in?" After a long pause Hughes replied coldly: "No, I don't think I will." The two men glared hard at each other, then Ferguson signed a subpoena for Expense Account Johnny...
From there until the weekend, Inquisitor Ferguson struggled with his bullheaded, shrewd, obstreperous witness. On his part, Planemaker Hughes put on a fancy performance in self-advancement, the sum of which was that, in effect, he had thought up many of the good planes the U.S. used in World War II-and the Japs had copied one for their Zero. Everybody welcomed the arrival of Saturday night. Some other Republican Congressmen still in Washington were beginning to get restive over the rowdy proceedings. Michigan's Senior Senator Arthur Vandenberg dropped in among the spectators on Saturday...