Word: ferguson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an observer, like Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, cried that this was another "step toward socialism." It was hardly that-yet. But it was a shrewd political move designed to scare steelmen into making more steel. It also put out the welcome mat for such companies as Dallas' Lone Star Steel Co. Lone Star got its start with a $25 million war-surplus blast furnace which it bought in 1947 for $7,500,000 (TIME, April 7, 1947). Last week Lone Star's President Eugene B. Germany called on Truman to discuss an RFC loan...
Fisher also admitted private authorship of a 300-page report on alleged Communist activities in NSA. He said he had submitted the report to the House Un-American Activities Committee, to Senator Homer Ferguson's special investigating committee, and to Young Republican national headquarters...
...example, Pearson's charges that Democratic Senator Elmer Thomas was speculating in commodity markets with inside government information finally got Republican Senator Homer Ferguson's investigating committee after Thomas. When Ferguson suddenly stopped investigating, Pearson's nose twitched, and off he went on the scent. Finally, last September, he sniffed out the story. The Merry-Go-Round ran an eye-opening letter from Thomas to Ferguson, threatening to denounce the Michigander for taking favors from big automen, unless he called off his investigation. Since neither Senator would want the note made public, where did Pearson...
Some notable GOP Senators managed to hand on to their chairs. Leverett Saltonstall stood firmly against the Massachusetts whirlwind, and Homer Ferguson successfully resisted the kind of assault in Michigan that ousted Republican Governor Kim Sigler. Other Republicans were safe in densely-GOP states; Bridges in New Hampshire, and Wherry in Nebraska, for example...
...Republican Robert E. Freer, Democrats Garland S. Ferguson, Ewin L. Davis and William A. Ayres...