Word: homers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson: "That line was the Communist Party line, wasn...
...Homer Smith, president of the sophomore class, attributed the success to the Sophomore Council and the secret "committee of 17" who worked on the project...
...Temple Medal (no cash) for the best oil, awarded in the past to such masters as Whistler, Winslow Homer and George Bellows, went to Louis Guglielmi of Manhattan for his New York 21, an expert semi-abstraction. Lithuanian-born Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz admitted that he was bucked up when his Prometheus Strangling the Vulture, a powerful, aggressively ugly study in plaster, won the top sculpture award. A few days after he sent Prometheus off to Philadelphia for the academy show, fire destroyed his Manhattan studio, along with ten years of work in models, sketches and drawings. "Part of my life...
Career: Served as assistant to the dean at Duke University Law School. In 1934 he went to Washington as attorney in the Department of Justice. In 1937 he rose to serve Attorney General Homer Cummings and his successor Robert Jackson as special assistant in charge of public relations. When Brien McMahon, chief of the criminal division, resigned in 1940 to start his own Washington law firm, he took Dean along as a partner. Dean worked with the McMahon firm until 1943, when he joined the Navy. In 1945 Robert Jackson took him to Germany to handle public relations...
...Schliemann set out for Asia Minor to make his boyish dream come true. In defiance of scholarly opinion, relying solely on Homer's descriptions, Schliemann chose the mound of Hissarlik as the place to start digging. And the digging proved the professionals wrong, the amateur right-almost too right, for instead of one city, Schliemann found nine within the mound, one on top of the other. Which one was Troy...