Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Reuther wasn't quite sure either: "The same people who paid to have me shot paid to have my brother shot and for the same reason. They could be diehard elements among employers, or they could be Communist or fascist agents." Michigan Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson guessed that it was the Communists (the party hotly denied it), got the U.S. Senate to call for FBI investigation. Others guessed that it might be the work of some crackpot, either anti-union or a U.A.W. man soured by bitter fights within the union...
...sure there are psychoanalyst's couches in the offices, and one room has a one-way observation screen built on the wall, but other psychological gear is conspicuously lacking. "Mein Kampf" and a life of Daunier flank the psychology texts in the bookcase; there are Japanese prints and Winslow Homer watercolors on the walls as well as pictures of Freud. The Clinic even has a kitchen, and serves its own 40-cent lunch for the staff...
Glaring at a list of 500 AEC scholarship-holders, Michigan's Homer Ferguson demanded to be told how many Communists there were among them. "Perhaps as many as three," Lilienthal admitted. One of these, explained Dr. Shields Warren, AEC's director of biology and medicine, was "an outstanding student" named Isador Edelman. Edelman, 29, had applied for a fellowship at the University of California's Berkeley laboratory (where he would have been close to secret work), had been turned down because an FBI check disclosed "derogatory information." But because he "showed extraordinary promise," AEC granted...
...Senator Homer Ferguson (R.Mich.) added the hearing was "an investigation of Dr. Edelman." Chairman Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D.Wy.) said. "You were merely asked here because your name had been mentioned...
...captain Eddie McHugh's two-run homer with two out in the top of the ninth inning put the Yale freshmen out in front to stay, 6 to 5, yesterday afternoon on Soldier's Field, as Crimson captain Jack Donclan went all the way for his third loss of the year against five victories...