Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Homer's stand did not mean that he was renouncing Communism, but simply that the realistic little Red thought he knew better than Moscow how to further the Red cause. He has indulged in such heresies before and got away with them because he is Britain's only top Red union leader with a mass following. Years ago there were many semi-independent Communists throughout the world. Today Horner is the only prominent one still tolerated by the party...
...ticked off as "highhanded and inept." Last week, as might be expected, a Look article said that MacArthur should be removed from command because of the reverses in Korea. As might also be expected, the writer of the article was the New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Homer Bigart, who has been harshly critical of MacArthur's conduct of the war from the beginning...
...when he came to one item: two Hopalong Cassidy hats. A nationwide alarm went out; police set up roadblocks across half a dozen states. But William Cook and his .32 vanished. Then, three days later, back at Blythe, Calif.1,600 miles from Tulsaa deputy named Homer Waldrip strolled into an auto court to question a man who had been one of Cook's friends...
...Carnegie's retiring director, Homer Saint-Gaudens, recalls that the public "used to spit at 50 yards at a modern painting. Now they say, 'I don't know anything about it-it may be all right.' " Painter Blume had spent three long years candy-coating his enigmatic Rock with slick, Technicolored gloss, and the public seemed to like the taste...
...exactly expressed my sentiments," said Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, G.O.P. floor leader in the Senate. "I agree with many of the general principles he states," said Ohio's Bob Taft, now a prime molder of G.O.P. foreign policy in the Senate. Indiana's 100% Isolationist Homer Capehart rejoiced: "I agree with Mr. Hoover 100%." "The people are with him," proclaimed Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune. (Its enthusiasm barely exceeded that of the Communist Party's Daily Worker, which appreciatively turned over its big headline type to Hoover's speech...