Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate lost its mightiest atom last week. Washington's little (5 ft. 6 in., 135 lb.) Homer Truett Bone, 61, got a Presidential appointment as Federal Circuit Judge (seven Western states, Alaska, Hawaii, China). Two-Term Senator Bone had certain renomination and election within his grasp, could he but campaign for it. But a fall in his Tacoma home in 1939 left him crippled; repeated operations had further impaired his health. For a year his right leg has been massaged daily by the Senate doctor. (Said Senator Bone dryly : "After all these years of having my leg pulled...
With the passing of George Norris, Homer Bone has been the Senate's leading public power advocate. He has an almost pathological hatred for private utilities; in his home State he has fought them as a candidate on the Socialist, Farmer-Labor, Triple Alliance, Republican and Democratic tickets. Most of the time he won, and gradually he set up Washington's famed Public Utility Districts...
...time-honored list of things which U.S. politicians may be counted upon to denounce relentlessly-the housefly, the common cold, the man-eating shark-Washington's Senator Homer Bone in 1937 added cancer. When he introduced a bill for a National Cancer Institute, it bore the sponsoring signatures of 94 Senators. (The other two hastened to add theirs before the bill came to a vote.) Last fortnight Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark hit on something which politicians almost as unanimously favor. He introduced a veterans' benefits bill, jointly sponsored by 80 other Senators. Last week, amid plaints...
Hope Revived. At week's end a ray of hope appeared again. Nevada's Pat McCarran, chairman of the Senate's liquor investigation, came out foursquare for a liquor holiday as the best way to stop hijacking (see p. 82). His committee colleague, Homer Ferguson of Michigan, concurred. But to U.S. tipplers, who have heard that kind of talk before, the holiday seemed just another mirage...
...other prints (13 in all). Soon the line of purchasers at the Museum turned from a timid trickle into a demand. By last week the Metropolitan had sold 60,000 ("Wonderful and amazing," says Ideaman Jayne) of its gay reproductions ("Bright color sells," he adds), including prints by Winslow Homer (Natural Bridge), Claude Monet (Sunflowers), Edgar Degas (Woman with Chrysanthemums). All prints are without lettering, suitable for framing. Best-seller was the Lawrence lush, sentimental Calmady Children (now out of print). Only modern represented...