Word: ferguson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 1,200 sweating spectators had squeezed into the humid, marble-walled caucus room of the Senate Office Building. Before them klieg lights glared; six movie cameras were trained on one vacant chair. Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, a man with a reputation as a prosecutor, stood behind a little forest of microphones and an underbrush of wires, and kept his eyes trained on the main door...
Howard Hughes, the Hollywood playboy and planemaker, about whom the public had heard very much but actually knew very little, was late for his date with the Senate War Investigating subcommittee. Sensing the crowd's restiveness, Homer Ferguson announced reassuringly: "Mr. Hughes will be here." The hubbub quieted...
Quite a Few. According to the rules laid down by the committee, neither of the duelists was to have the chance to cross-examine the other. But when Brewster was finished and Senator Ferguson asked Hughes if he had any questions, the flyer snapped: "Yes-200 to 500 of them." If the committee had not sensed it before, here was conclusive evidence that unexpectedly pugnacious Howard Hughes believed firmly in the maxim that the best defense is a good offense. Senator Ferguson told him to put his questions in writing...
...Manhattan Pressagent Carl Byoir, Hughes turned up at the hearing room with a fat bundle of notes in his pocket. He began reading: "Senator Brewster's story is a pack of lies and I can tear it to pieces if I am allowed to cross-examine." Senator Ferguson, his patience wearing thin, turned to the press table and said, sotto voce: "He's a hard man to be nice...
...Chairman Ferguson promptly summoned Hughes's pressagent, John Meyer, the man with the inexhaustible bank account and all the girl friends. Chairman Ferguson proceeded with loving caution...