Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation's top-notch football coaches, Dana Xenophon Bible. Last week, having a swank campus and the beginnings of a football team, University of Texas set out to make itself an important educational institution. It hired as president (salary: $17,500) a top-notch educator, Homer Price Rainey, 42, director of the American Council on Education's Youth Commission...
...days before retiring as U. S. Attorney General, 68-year-old Homer Stille Cummings, class poet at Yale in 1891, confessed that he had written two volumes of poetry during his six years in office. Said he: "I doubt seriously that they will ever see the light...
...alarmed view taken last week by most Business spokesmen toward Harry Hopkins as Secretary of Commerce was that, as a chronic social worker and economic planner, he might devise ways-in cahoots with his trust-busting fellow Janizary, Robert Houghwout Jackson, who seems likely to succeed Attorney-General Homer Cummings in January-of fastening new Federal controls upon Business. An entirely different view was expressed by Journalist David Lawrence, one of Business' most alert and alarmable servants. He wrote...
...Presidents of the U. S. for many years had a good method of getting rid of any inconvenient politician: to make him Governor-General of the Philippines. Like a cat looking at a President, Homer Martin, whom John L. Lewis still tolerates as head of the United Automobile Workers, last week gave jobs to five U. A. W. vice presidents...
...fishing and studied little else, Glackens won the respect of several schools and generations. Born in Philadelphia, he began his career as an illustrator for Philadelphia newspapers. McClure's Magazine sent him to Cuba to sketch the Spanish-American War, as Harper's had sent Winslow Homer to cover the Civil War. In toughness, gaiety and all-round draftsmanship, his illustrations, of which the Whitney last week exhibited 35, stood with those of his most gifted Realist contemporaries, John Sloan, Robert Henri, George Luks...