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...Yassuh, Yassuh." The first thing Underwood did, with the help of Deputy Sheriff Homer Sheffield, was to round up 30 Negroes. He finally narrowed his suspects down to four, then herded them into the sheriff's back room. As Sheriff Marshall explained: "I was not there, but about 9 or 10 o'clock, after some heat probably had been applied to try to get the truth, one of them said, 'Yassuh, yassuh, we hit him in the head.'" Underwood got "confessions" signed by three of the prisoners-Jesse James Jr., Amos Redmond and Jesse Davis-admitting...
...there was an occasional waspish exchange. One was set off by Michigan's Senator Blair Moody, the newspaperman who succeeded Arthur Vandenberg. New, talkative and not yet hep to all the club customs, Moody triumphantly disclosed how a colleague had voted in a closed committee. Indiana's Homer Capehart, Moody said, had raised his hand in favor of throwing out all wage and price controls. The outraged Capehart did not think it was necessary "to have persons snooping to see whether a Senator holds up his hand. I wish to say that I do not like such tactics...
...Killing sparrows," Georgia's Senator Walter George called it scornfully. But Illinois' Paul Douglas and Michigan's Homer Ferguson doggedly went on setting their small snares for the bureaucratic idler and the freehanded spender. In the Senate last week, first one and then the other bobbed up to offer money-saving amendments to the $2,528,000,000 appropriation for the Federal Security Agency and the Labor Department...
...Homer Ferguson, U.S. Senator from Michigan LL.D...
...Capitol Hill in an old car to testify before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. His most startling statistic: the 46 executive departments of the U.S. Government (not including Defense) operate 19,888 passenger cars, hire 1,380 full-time and 5,672 part-time chauffeurs. Commented Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson (who owns his own Pontiac, no chauffeur): "All the Senators are getting embarrassed by the number of large chauffeur-driven cars that pass them on the street...