Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-equipped candidate they could find. Joe McCarthy has performed herculean service in the campaign to root subversives from the fabric of American Government. But he has not been alone in this challenging task. People like Bob Taft of Ohio and Bill Knowland of California and Homer Ferguson of Michigan trained their sights on the Communist menace long before...
Having helped draft the blueprint, Finley was anxious to prove it practical. He began an elementary humanities course covering Homer, Vergil, and Dante; this year, "The Epic and the Novel," divided between Finley and I. A. Richards, has one of the largest enrollments in the College...
...hostility ranged in degree. Michigan's Homer Ferguson and California's William Knowland were not really happy about the nomination. Nevada's crusty Democrat, Pat McCarran, joined the GOP opposition; Bohlen's link with Yalta, he said, is "enough for me." Ohio's Robert Taft, in his role of Republican pacifier, thought the Moscow ambassadorship not important enough for a big intraparty battle. "Our Russian ambassador can't do anything. He is in a box at Moscow. All he can do is observe and report. He will not influence policy materially...
...Died. Homer Lenoir Ferguson,* 80, dean of American shipbuilders, president (1915-46) of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.; of a heart attack; in Warwick, Va. As boss of the nation's oldest and largest builder of merchant and naval vessels, Annapolis-trained Engineer Ferguson directed its round-the-clock construction frenzy in two world wars, built 15 of the Navy's big aircraft carriers (Hornet, Midway...
...Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson...