Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brownell and FBI Director Hoover on the ground that it would drive Communists underground. This surprise move was sprung by Wayne Morse and two Democrats, Minnesota's Humphrey and Massachusetts' Kennedy, as a partisan response to McCarthyite charges that Democrats are soft on Communism. Michigan's Homer Ferguson pointed out that the rider merely outlaws a name, does not cope with overt subversive acts. "What conduct would the Senator make illegal by his amendment?" he asked Humphrey...
Moody's death, just two weeks before the Aug. 3 primary, was a severe blow to the plans and hopes of Michigan Democrats. He was the party organization's choice for the nomination to oppose Republican U.S. Senator Homer Ferguson; his death left Detroit Board of Education Member Patrick McNamara, who is at odds with Michigan Democratic leaders, the only candidate for the nomination. Michigan Democrats admitted that McNamara has little, if any, hope of beating Homer Ferguson in November...
Without another word, Fulbright moved that the committee substitute Richards' amendment for Knowland's. Voting with Fulbright for the motion were Republicans Smith, Alexander Wiley and George Aiken, Democrats Walter George, Theodore Green, John Sparkman and Guy Gillette. On record against it went Republicans Knowland, Homer Ferguson, Bourke Hickenlooper and William Langer and Democrat Mike Mansfield. Dulles had won his point, over the opposition of his own party's Senate leaders...
...Wait Till Next Year." From then on, Willie was on fire. Up against Boston's Speedballer Warren Spahn for the first time in the Polo Grounds, he teed off on a three-and-one pitch and lofted it over the leftfield roof for a homer. His batting average started to climb. In the field he could do no wrong, did much that was phenomenal. He had an unconscious knack for doing the spectacular, an uncanny instinct for anticipating batters and baserunners. Once, when he dove out from under his cap (Mays frequently loses his cap) to catch a sinking...
Republican Senator Homer Capehart promptly called the transaction another example of a "windfall" profit, i.e., one gained by inflating the value of the mortgage on the houses beyond their actual cost of construction and pocketing the difference. Builder Levitt insisted that his profit was no such thing. He defined a windfall profit as one made by a builder when he pocketed the difference between the mortgage and the building cost and still retained title to the property, thus giving him the right to additional profits from sales or rentals. In his case, said Levitt, the $5,000,000 was simply...