Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunlit, stuccoed San Juan, beggars collapsed on the streets. There were fist fights when 22,000 pounds of spoiled codfish were dumped into the sea by customs inspectors. Last fortnight the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart reported, after a tour of the island, that storehouses were empty of rice and fish, that only a month's supply of beans was available. In San Juan, prices soared: the cheapest kind of beef meat sold for hamburger at 59? a pound, small brown eggs were three for a quarter, onions 40? a pound. Quinine to use against malaria...
...Homer Ferguson, 53, Michigan, a jurist-investigator who has become Detroit's symbol of civic virtue...
Michigan voters were embarrassed by their riches. For Senator they had to choose between statesmanlike Democrat Prentiss Marsh Brown, generally rated one of the dozen ablest men on Capitol Hill, and famed racket-busting Republican Judge Homer Ferguson, a great & good public servant. For Governor, they had their choice of big, able, incumbent Democrat Murray Delos Van Wagoner, or big, able Republican Secretary of State Harry F. Kelly, one of the most popular politicos Michigan ever...
...James Homer Donald...
...James Homer Donald...