Word: homer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historically-dubious idea that wars are started for profit has long obsessed a group of Senators including Washington's Homer Bone, North Dakota's Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, Missouri's Bennett Clark, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg. "To keep democracy alive, and for other purposes," these gentlemen and 46 cosigners last week outdid themselves by sponsoring a war-tax measure written by little, pinch-faced Senator Bone...
...plot deals with the troubles of "Homer Leland" (Roger Lapham '40) in raising enough cash to stage the World's Fair, and through it is woven an implausible little romance of the meets-loses-gets variety. The latter angle is handled in taste and in tune by Bayard Dillingham '40 and David Sheppard '41. The rest of the acting leaves much to be desired, although the cast can blame this with some justice on the book...
...morning last week 356 delegates to "Homer Martin's convention" in Detroit voted their United Automobile Workers of America out of C. I. O., which had already booted them out. That afternoon they negligently passed the same resolution all over again, cheering lustily and voting to wire a copy to John Llewellyn Lewis...
Thus was established what newly elected President Homer Martin called "a democratic, autonomous, clean union." His inference was that the other part of the United Automobile Workers of America which in the recent split (TIME, Feb. 6) remained with C. I. 0. has none of these qualities, although it undoubtedly has a clear majority of organized autoworkers...
...Homer Martin's one chance of survival outside both C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. is to sell his wobbly minority to automakers who, now that they must have some union, ask nothing more than an orderly one. For selling talk, Mr. Martin had his delegates pledge themselves to observe their contracts, keep out Communists, Nazis and Fascists, and debar all such gentry from office. In doing so Homer Martin alienated radicals who have stood loyally by him and supplied the bulk of his administrative brains...