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...final delaying tactic, McCarran had departed for Europe for further "investigation" of the D.P. situation, and sent back a warning that "this country will be inundated with a flood of aliens." Michigan's Homer Ferguson patiently refuted his arguments, pointed out that 134,000 was scarcely an inundation, amounted to less than a fifth of one percent of the labor force. But McCarran's allies carried on. For nearly six hours, Washington's garrulous lightweight, Harry P. Cain, held the floor with a low-grade filibuster. The D.P. opponents talked on, counting on the dwindling attendance...
Hanover police chief Andrew J. Ferguson said he believed there was no malice or premeditation involved, but that Devee was guilty of poor judgment in firing a .23 caliber telescope equipped target rifle at beer cans floating is the Connecticut River...
State Auditor "Jumping Joe" Ferguson. A sign on his desk reads: "The politician thinks about the next election; the statesman thinks about the next generation." Joe was plainly thinking about the next election. Said he: "There ain't nobody going to get me out of this race...
...thank the Senator for his invaluable contribution," snapped Lucas. But if it got down to cases, he wanted to point out that the Republicans had used up 57% of the debating time, not counting the Republican-abetted filibuster of the Southern Democrats over civil rights. Michigan's Homer Ferguson produced some figures to shift the blame right back to the Democrats. As he had it, the Republicans had used up only 1,563 and one-ninth pages of the Record; Democrats had used 1,612 and four-ninths...
...Aviation Corp. in South Bend, Ind. had strangled production of military jet engines, was also slowly throttling the flow of spare parts to the Berlin airlift. Last week Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington stepped in, invited the United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther and Bendix President Malcolm P. Ferguson down to Washington to face each other (though both live in Detroit, they had never met). After an all-night session at the Pentagon, they came to terms. Bendix agreed to withdraw a $2,000,000 damage suit against the union, to rehire immediately 43 of 47 wildcat strikers...