Word: homering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointment smacked of "cronyism at its worst," said Michigan's Robert Griffin, "and everybody knows it." The charge of cronyism was reinforced by the fact that, to fill the vacancy left by Earl Warren's retirement and Fortas' move up, Lyndon Johnson appointed his old friend and fellow Texan, Homer Thornberry (see box, page...
Will the Fortas court be as active and adventuresome as the Warren court? The answer lies, ironically, not so much with Fortas as with Homer Thornberry, whose direction on the Supreme Court, despite a general record of moderate liberalism, is unpredictable. If he proves to be as liberal as Warren, whom he really replaces, the court will probably continue on much the same path. If he tends toward conservatism, it might move toward the right ? though probably not enough to satisfy the congressional critics. More vacancies might come even before Johnson leaves office. Black is 82; Douglas, 69, recently...
...HOMER?!" A distinguished Democrat could hardly believe the news that Lyndon Johnson had nominated his friend of two decades, William Homer Thornberry, 59, to the Supreme Court. Equally incredulous was a clutch of conservative Republicans, who saw the nomination as a political payoff to an old crony whose judicial credentials fall somewhat short of the standards demanded by the nation's highest court...
Born in Austin to deaf-mute parents, Thornberry used sign language until he was three, when he first learned to talk. When he was an infant, William and Mary Thornberry slept in shifts so that one could always keep a vigil beside his cradle, since neither could hear Homer's cries. The family was so poor that when William, a carpenter built a home, the windows were boarded with wood for two years until he could scrape together money for windowpanes...
...Homer Vergil...