Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard Hughes roared on, demanding "equal rights," and got a big hand from the audience. With that, red-faced Homer Ferguson ordered the room cleared of all but reporters and cameramen...
More than 1,200 sweating spectators had squeezed into the humid, marble-walled caucus room of the Senate Office Building. Before them klieg lights glared; six movie cameras were trained on one vacant chair. Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, a man with a reputation as a prosecutor, stood behind a little forest of microphones and an underbrush of wires, and kept his eyes trained on the main door...
Howard Hughes, the Hollywood playboy and planemaker, about whom the public had heard very much but actually knew very little, was late for his date with the Senate War Investigating subcommittee. Sensing the crowd's restiveness, Homer Ferguson announced reassuringly: "Mr. Hughes will be here." The hubbub quieted...
...Senator Homer Ferguson's War Investigating subcommittee, digging into the wartime contracts of Millionaire Plane-builder Howard Hughes, had turned up some gaudy ore. It glittered with headline names, beautiful girls, fantastic expense accounts (TIME, Aug. 4). Last week, the committee went deep into one of the abandoned mine shafts of history, guided by big-time World War II administrators and brasshats and-somewhat unwillingly-by a Hollywood pressagent and a President's son. It found more...
Afterward, Attlee met a miners' committee, including Mine Union Boss Arthur Homer, a Communist whose first loyalties might not belong to his country in crisis (TIME, July 28). Attlee pleaded: would the miners work an extra half hour daily, or an extra half day weekly? The men from the mines agreed-if the Government promised not to revoke the newly granted five-day week...