Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about slums in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York, Illinois' freshman Senator Paul Douglas invited his colleagues to inspect the slums that lie within the shadow of the Capitol. Four Senators made the first trip; seven the second. With Douglas as guide, the first group-Republicans Wayne Morse, Homer Ferguson, Raymond Baldwin and Democrat Theodore Green-set out with the air of men exploring an Arabian casbah...
Rivera is, at his best, a pocket-size Homer, at his worst a billboard-calendarist wooing the tourist trade. And for all the movement and technical preciseness and colour, Diego Rivera has never been, certainly is not, Mexico's or the Hemisphere's greatest living artist...
...hindrance in bringing worldly success? Apparently, the 127 had found them to be neither. But St. John's felt reassured on one point: there seemed to be no regrets. No one indicated that if he had it to do all over he would not start right in with Homer, happily read on up through Bertrand Russell again...
...many obstacles to reporting the news in Russia's satellite Balkan countries that their number has been reduced to a handful. Each remaining correspondent wonders whether his next visa will be renewed. A recent departure from their thinning ranks was the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart who, although his visa was in perfect order, was given 24 hours to get out of Hungary for a straightforward piece of reporting that displeased the Communist authorities there...
...Virgil Chapman, who had ridden into the Senate on Truman's coattails and voted against him practically ever since, was in for a talk on,party principles-and party patronage! (Friendly Republicans were not overlooked. California's Representative Richard J. Welch and Oregon's Homer Angell found a willing presidential ear for their problems-coast shipping, irrigation, public power...