Word: homer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just between us," President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers of America asked reporters confidentially last week, "what does the public think?" One of those present answered, in a note to his editor: "Where there is public opinion, it is for Martin. He has a better pressagent, a pretty fair radio technique, and pearly teeth...
Perhaps not by sheer accident the last official opinion of outgoing Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings, published last week, tweaked the Jew-baiting nose of Nazi Germany. The State Department had asked the Attorney General to advise whether to deny, on grounds of moral turpitude, a visa to a German Jew who, in order to escape from Germany, had lied about his money to Nazi officials...
...extensively to find another guard. When a starting five was finally placed together, it was woefully weak in experience, but worse than that it turned out to be one of the shortest quintets to wear the Crimson in many a year. The Sophomores' one and only seasoned contribution was Homer Peabody, hard-working and aggressive center, who quickly ousted Bill Humes from his first-string pivot post...
...starting berth until the Terrier tilt, but he has proved himself to be a steady ball player. Fred Heckel is much more at home at forward than at guard, and he showed what he really could do in the Boston University game by amassing 17 points. Homer Peabody has improved steadily, and Bill Humes is ready to work in the relief role...
...best brand of ball before a capacity crowd. The Jumbos presented a tightly-knit defense and broke up Crimson passes time and time again. The Feslermen were never able to get a fast-breaking attack started, and their scoring was limited to an occasional basket by Charley Lutz or Homer Peabody. The latter turned in the evening's best defensive job as he held center Charley Tibbs to six points...