Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cast into sudden limelight by Soviet Russia's 10 to 1 deflation of the ruble, tonight's Law School Forum will ask "What Shall We Do About The High Cost of Living?" Scheduled for Rindge Tech Auditorium at 8 o'clock, the Forum will feature Senator Homer Capehart (R-Ind.) and Leon Keyserling...
...Senator Homer Capehart, Indiana Republican, and Leon H. Keyserling, LL.D. '31 will substitute for Walter P. Reuther in tomorrow night's Law School Forum, as Reuther notified the Forum that he would be unable to speak. Changing the topic to "What Shall We Do About the High Cost of Living?", the Forum has postponed the program until Tuesday night at 8 o'clock at Rindge Tech...
...ablest men. He had risen from private. As second in command of A.A.F. procurement, he had had much to do with the spending of $60 billion; he had been praised for getting airplanes when they were needed. He was a Big Man. On the sordid evidence presented before Senator Homer Ferguson's War Investigating subcommittee last week, Benny Meyers was something else. He was a man of cheap little schemes who hid behind cheaply bought dupes while he enriched himself...
...Louis last week, the purse-pinched Browns sold, for an estimated $400,000 and 13 lesser-light players, six of their first-stringers-including their homer-hitting Shortstop Vern Stephens. Nobody was jailed. It is not an offense in the U.S. to own a bad team, nor to weaken it further in any way the management chooses. But some of the other American League owners talked as if it should be. President Dan Topping of the New York Yankees demanded an official investigation of the eighth-place Browns. Said he: "We do not want to see the American League become...
With that the committee ended its Hughes investigation and turned to a more inviting target. While deaf Howard Hughes listened impassively, with an earphone clapped to his good ear, Michigan's Homer Ferguson grilled the discomfited Benny Meyers, Major General, U.S.A. ret., the man who had approved the original $70 million contract...