Word: homers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three shipbuilding companies promptly issued denials. Eugene Gifford Grace, president of Bethlehem Ship-building which built the cruiser Northampton launched last week (see col. 2), said Lobbyist Shearer's suit was "without merit." Homer Lenoir Ferguson, president of Newport News Co. which built the cruiser Houston also launched last week, said that his company had never employed "Shearer or any one else to oppose disarmament." Clinton Lloyd Bardo, president of New York Shipbuilding Co. (subsidiary of American Brown Boveri) said the suit was "wholly unsupported by the facts...
Marriage Disclosed. Homer Stillé Cummings of Stamford, Conn., onetime (1919-20) Democratic National Committee Chairman, twotime (1920, 1924) candidate for Democratic Presidential nomination, twice divorced; to a Miss Cecelia Waterbury of Stamford; five months ago at Stamford...
...defense of Southern industrialists rose Homer Lenoir Ferguson, president of Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding Co., onetime (1919-20) president of U. S. Chamber of Commerce, employer of 7,000 non-union men, stockholder in four textile mills. Mr. Ferguson's company is one of the South's great industrial concerns. It reconditioned the Leviathan after the War, built the turbo-electric Panama-Pacific liners Virginia, California, and Pennsylvania, as well as many a vessel for the Navy. Strongwilled, strong-spoken, Mr. Ferguson declared...
First up rose Representative Homer Hoch, Kansas Republican, to propose an amendment by which all aliens would be omitted from the population count on which representation is based. Such a counting of voters rather than of heads has long been a favorite project of Drys and the Ku Klux Klan, for it would reduce the representation of large Eastern cities with their many Wet and Liberal aliens. Exclusion of aliens would, for instance, cut six members from New York's representation. A coalition of Southern Democrats and Western Republicans from states adversely affected by reapportionment secured the adoption...
Seven Greek cities claimed to be the birthplace of Homer. Almost as many in the U. S. claim to be the birthplace of the Republican party. When the party came into being in the early 1850's, slavery was the prime issue. When last week the town of Ripon, Wis. (population 4,000) attempted to establish its title to "founding" the Republican party 75 years ago, Prohibition, in the form of Dry raids by U. S. agents, overshadowed the news of the celebration...