Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arithmetic. Legendary also is the personality of Associated's creator, pudgy, laughing, strongarm Tactician Howard C. Hopson. Hopson learned the utility ropes as head of the Capitalization Division of New York State's progressive Public Service Commission, worked 15 hours a day, slept in his office, binged Homerically, ran up astronomical bills telephoning his Janizaries at all hours in all parts of the country, candidly spoke of his "collapsible securities," and was delivered by heart disease into the hands of male nurses just before his system's top holding companies, CO. and CORP., began tottering (TIME...
...might have to prosecute. He advised the SEC to probe the situation "to the bottom." Krock blasted back, denying the inference, telling the Senator he had the sequence of events all wrong. In his counterblast, however, Krock revealed that Hanes had been recommended to the court by (among others) Homer Cummings...
Well above suspicion were the motives and integrity of Wall Street Alumnus Hanes. But by week's end it was certain that he would not be a trustee of Associated. Homer Cummings' kiss had proved sure death in New Deal Washington, and Homer Cummings' friends and clients had thereby lost Round I of the great Associated battle to the New Deal. As Judge Leibell was pondering other names at week's end, Associated's 1,762,000 customers, unperturbed by the fight half-a-dozen holding companies away, found their lights went...
...Governor Homer Adams Holt of West Virginia, faint kin to U. S. Senator Rush Holt, donned old lace and a veil, clutched a large bouquet in a Charleston Junior League revue called Dream of a Clown. Flower girls to His Excellency's bride were former Governor Herman Guy Kump and Walter Eli Clark, Charleston publisher and onetime Governor of Alaska...
Albert E. Cummings, of Chicago, as lecturer on Foundation Engineering; Langley S. Homer, of Boston, as lecturer on Foundation Engineering; John M. Buchanan, of South Bend, as assistant in Chemistry; and Frank C. Whitmore, Jr., of Cambridge, as assistant in Paleontology...