Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blow, whistling around foreign policy, also whistled around domestic issues. Senators argued over a resolution proposed by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver that the Senate Judiciary Committee investigate syndicated crime in the U.S. Republicans approved it. They looked forward to the participation of Michigan's Homer Ferguson and Missouri's Forrest Donnell, both members of Judiciary and both tenacious Republican investigators, knowing that they would get their teeth into crime and Democratic politics in Kansas City, and into the past affairs, for instance, of the late Charlie Binaggio...
Administration leaders did a quick retake. They rejuggled Kefauver's proposal so that Vice President Barkley would do the picking. No one thought that Barkley would choose Donnell or Homer Ferguson. Said Ferguson indignantly: "I've been euchred out." Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska demanded: "Why are they doing this? Is this an investigation or a cover-up?"-and thought he knew the answers...
Gushing Out. What is Texmass and why did it want RFC money? The subcommittee learned that in 1945 a group headed by Dallas Oil Promoter Homer W. Snowden persuaded 350 wealthy Bostonians to invest more than $8,000,000 in separate oil projects, managed by Snowden and his associates. Later they formed the Texmass Petroleum Co. to take over the oil & gas properties in Texas. In the spring of 1947 Texmass borrowed $4,000,000 from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. and $3,500,000 from John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. Later, the 350 Bostonians put up another...
...issuing only one base on balls and using a nice slow curve. The Worcester entry get two runs in the first inning on two singles and a sacrifice, one in the fourth on a triple and a long fly, and one in the seventh on Johnny Turco's homer to right field. The visitors got three singles in the sixth but failed to score...
...twice and driving in another run on his homer to left center. Crosby showed a great deal of speed as he scored three times, reaching on a walk, a single, and a double...