Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After nearly four years of legal stalling, 36-year-old Homer L. Loomis Jr., onetime head of Georgia's anti-Negro, anti-Semitic "Columbians," decided to serve the one-year jail term he got in 1947 for starting a race riot in Atlanta...
Shouts & Affronts. The Senate rapidly dealt with three others. Michigan's Homer Ferguson objected to the nomination of a brash, left-winging ex-Congressman named Frank Hook to the Motor Carrier Claims Commission. Hook had run against Ferguson for the Senate in 1948. "The nominee is lacking in capacity," said Ferguson. Down went Hook. Then there was Martin A. Hutchinson, an able Virginia lawyer nominated to the Federal Trade Commission. Hutchinson had run against Senator Harry Byrd in the 1946 primary-Byrd's first opposition in 21 years. Byrd told the Senate that he did not want Hutchinson...
...bill had formidable opponents, including the big labor unions, and the non-Communist American Civil Liberties Union. Michigan's Homer Ferguson, however, argued that his bill had the support of a committee of the American Bar Association. The Senate had once let a bill similar to Mundt-Ferguson die. But Korea and Klaus Fuchs had changed a lot of minds...
Correspondent Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune told what happened when several hundred trapped Reds stormed two U.S. artillery batteries. "In action of a type seldom seen outside American Civil War prints, the artillerymen leveled their 105-mm. howitzers at enemy troops which at times penetrated within a hundred yards of the guns. With fuses set at zero, the artillerymen were using Charge 7-the maximum powder charge a 105 will take. Charge 7 is almost as rough on the guns as it was today on the Reds." Three out of the batteries' four guns were burned...
From a low ridgeline above the Kum River last week, three U.S. correspondents watched an outnumbered, outgunned battalion of G.I.s fight a desperate delaying action. Only one of the newsmen, the New York Herald Tribune's Homer Bigart, got back to write about it. The others, Ray Richards of Hearst's International News Service and Corporal Ernie Peeler of Stars and Stripes, were killed as they ran for a jeep when the battalion was cut off. Richards was shot through the head, Peeler through the chest. They were the first newsmen to die in the Korean...