Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, as Republican Subcommittee Chairman Homer Ferguson shouted "whitewash" and recommended a full Senate investigation of Tom Clark's actions, the FBI was given a free hand in Kansas City. Meanwhile, Harry Truman insisted that the investigation be pushed to the limit. Cackled Republicans derisively : "Nobody in here but us chickens...
...Charles Burchfield. 5. Winslow Homer...
This year, although two bills previously introduced in Congress on her behalf had perished in committee, Mom readily persuaded Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to introduce a new bill 1) establishing a National Committee for All War Widows-with Mrs. Richards as its honorary life chairman, 2) designating Sept. 6 of each year as War Widows Memoir...
Died. Louise Homer, 76, onetime (1898-1932) contralto in the Metropolitan's Golden Era of Caruso, Melba, Farrar, Scotti, Tetrazzini; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Daughter of a Pennsylvania minister, she launched her career at 14 by singing Ruth in a church production of Ruth and Naomi (when the lad assigned the basso-profundo role of Boaz failed to show up, Louise sang that role, too). Dependable and even-tempered in an atmosphere that earned "prima donna" its popular meaning, Presbyterian-born Mrs. Homer once balked at a role: in Faust the Met wanted...
Harcourt Wood went all the way for Winthrop, yielding two runs in the fifth inning and one in the eight. Dunster's relief hurler, George Okamura, nearly succeeded in salvaging his cause with a two-run homer in the fifth, but the puritans' early lead proved sufficient for their victory...