Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, the committee sheepishly backed down. Michigan's Homer Ferguson introduced the resolution which Anderson had suggested, and both Houses quickly passed it. The tenet that Congress has the right to inquire into any facet of U.S. life was upheld-so long as the inquiry conformed to law and reflected the will of Congress. This week Clint Anderson went to work preparing his list for publication. It would, he said, contain 'about 14,000 names...
...Conspicuously high-placed Communists in British unions: Arthur Homer, general secretary of the Mineworkers; Jim Gardner, general secretary of the Foundry Workers; Abe Moffat, president of the Scottish Mineworkers. Seventy out of 833 delegates to the last Trades Union Congress were Communists, as are eight of the 33 members of Deakin's own executive board...
...College Station, Texas, last week, chunky, 50-year-old Homer Norton thanked everybody kindly, pocketed $20,000, and walked out. As head football coach at Texas A. & M., he had made the mistake of losing to the University of Texas for eight years in a row. Now he was fired...
Free-Trader Pauley said he did not think that grain speculation had caused higher food prices-"even though certain loose charges to that effect have been tossed about by some political parties and candidates." Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson asked blandly if by any chance he meant President Truman? "No," snapped Ed Pauley, "I mean Harold Stassen...
Just 24 hours after the introduction of his price-freeze resolution on the Senate floor, Homer E. Capehart debated price policies with Leon H. Keyserling, a member of the President's Economic Advisory Council, before the Law School Forum last night...