Word: homeric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...notable circumstance about all this was that the men who were shot, beaten, hunted were subjected to that treatment not by an angry management but by fellow-unionists. The strikers belonged to C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America. Homer Martin's recently independent United Automobile Workers wished to horn in on the Briggs negotiations, horn out C. I. O. Homer Martin's men got the worst of it in the negotiations although C. I. O.'s union suffered most of the casualties at the hands of his goons in the street fights...
Best orator: Homer S. Brown...
Ablest all-round: Homer S. Brown...
Thus last week the watchful reporters who cover Pennsylvania's Legislature voted their conviction that Democrat Homer S. Brown of Pittsburgh's "Hill" area has plenty of ability. What made the vote news: Homer Brown is a Negro...
...chambers with white men are noticeable only because they are black or because they blatantly insist on their race's rights. Oscar De Priest and his successor, Arthur Mitchell, only two Negroes elected to the U. S. Congress since Reconstruction, rated far below average in ability. Not so Homer Brown. Quiet, effective, popular, he is sought out by his white colleagues for his opinions on constitutional law-which is his heavyweight hobby. That attribute, plus his oratorical persuasiveness, pegs him as the lower house's most influential member on nonpartisan legislation. No stooge for his party, Homer Brown...