Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smart President Farish, whose approach is as smooth as his head, told first of his Humble Oil beginnings, but barely reached page one of his 35-page statement when the interruptions started. Senator Homer T. Bone, chairman, was quick to challenge any implication that the case against Standard had been one-sided. Said the Senator: "I am fed up on big outfits like yours indicating to the public that Congress is trying to ride them. God knows we are not big enough to ride your outfit. You are one of the biggest corporations in the world." Later, the Senator philosophized...
...Arkansas. James William Fulbright is young (37), handsome, wealthy and a Rhodes scholar (1925). He talked and whittled his way into the hearts of farmers and storekeepers in Arkansas' mountainous Third District and won the Democratic Congressional nomination against Supreme Court Justice Karl Greenhaw, a protege of Governor Homer Adkins. Going to the crossroads and hill farms, Gentleman Fulbright convinced the people that a little learning, a little farming, a little wealth and a little business would not hurt a Congressman who retained his horse sense. His Philadelphia-born wife went to picnics and ice cream socials to show...
...C.I.O., loves purple language and purple suits. He also loves politics, in which he is a shrewd and practical man. In 1940, as a U.S. Senator with two years still to go, he saw his career threatened by the machine run by onetime Governors Herman G. Kump and Homer A. Holt. He scurried home, got elected Governor, began repairing local fences...
Fitzgizbbons sparked the big third inning with a homer to left center, which, in addition to a run-producing triple, established him as the big gun in the contest. Me Berg maintained himself at the top of the Varsity pitching staff by holding the hard-hitting Fort team to five hits, and displaying his customary control gave up only one walk...
Brightest moment of an otherwise gloomy day was the sixth inning, which saw the only homer of the day driven in by Fitzgibbons, center fielder, who brought in Barnes to bring the score to 4-3. There more runs in the seventh made the total runs for the day on the Crimson side...