Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centuries of Biblical scholarship and discovery of new texts which followed the King James version (1611), which was itself a revision of elder versions, not a new translation. But its English was awkward-its translators mauled the English language by following the Greek literally, like a dull schoolboy rendering Homer...
...fight this argument, Rollins hired former U.S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, and North Carolina hired ex-Governor Oliver Max Gardner. The Supreme Court turned down the Ackland family, left only Rollins and North Carolina in the running...
...Churchill, burrowing his toes in Florida's sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...
...Grace, 69, president of Bethlehem Steel since 1916, moved over to chairman of the board, a chair vacant since Charles M. Schwab died in 1939. Grace will continue as "chief executive officer." But much of the day-by-day operating will now fall on the new president, Arthur Bartlett Homer, 49. Born in Belmont, Mass., Homer graduated from Brown University and Annapolis, served in World War I as a lieutenant on submarines, joined Beth Steel in 1919. During World War II, Homer, whose hobby is sailing his 40-foot yawl, bossed Beth Steel's shipbuilding program. In five years...
Direct cause of the blowoff was Republican cross-examination of General of the Army George C. Marshall, which consumed seven days while a plane stood by to rush the General to his urgent job in China. Michigan's eager Senator Homer Ferguson, still looking for evidence that Franklin Roosevelt had war-mongered, took up 92 hours of Marshall's time...