Word: homers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Homer Loring, Boston specialist in rejuvenation of worn-out corporations, resigned last week as chairman of the board of directors of the unfortunate Boston & Maine Railroad. Directors insisted on voting him $100,000 for his four years of voluntary service. He accepted the check, established a Boston & Maine Employes' fund with it, adding: "The task seemed worth undertaking, and the satisfaction and enjoyment in having helped accomplish it have been adequate compensation for what I have contributed...
Elected. Thomas Nelson Perkins, director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, president of the Harvard Alumni Association; to be chairman of the Boston and Maine Railroad. He succeeds Homer Loring, who resigned...
...Homer; the Architecture of the Poems," Mr. Peterkin, Sever...
Indubitably, this work has been enormously aided through the publicity as well as by the personal efforts supplied by blind, mute Helen Keller. Impressed with the miracle which made doubly terrible Homer's cry, "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, irrevocably dark, total eclipse without all hope of day," she could pity Milton, "upbraiding the world in high astounding terms," whose "light was spent ere half his days." She could doubt, in her heart, that it was a Nemesis who, that faraway, forgotten winter, had laid his hand upon her eyes. She could sense, perhaps, a certain...
February 8--"Homer", Professor C. N. Jackson...