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...Senator Homer Ferguson's War Investigating subcommittee, digging into the wartime contracts of Millionaire Plane-builder Howard Hughes, had turned up some gaudy ore. It glittered with headline names, beautiful girls, fantastic expense accounts (TIME, Aug. 4). Last week, the committee went deep into one of the abandoned mine shafts of history, guided by big-time World War II administrators and brasshats and-somewhat unwillingly-by a Hollywood pressagent and a President's son. It found more...
Afterward, Attlee met a miners' committee, including Mine Union Boss Arthur Homer, a Communist whose first loyalties might not belong to his country in crisis (TIME, July 28). Attlee pleaded: would the miners work an extra half hour daily, or an extra half day weekly? The men from the mines agreed-if the Government promised not to revoke the newly granted five-day week...
...Senate one bitter speech followed another. Texas' white-maned Senator Tom Connally shook a trembling finger at Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, accusing him of pouring out "the vomit of his hate, prejudice, rancor and ambition." While Bob Taft pleaded with him, Idaho's banjo-playing Democratic Senator Glen Taylor cunningly piled books on his desk as though he was preparing to make a long harangue. He sent a note to the press gallery: "Don't worry . . . I'm not going to make a speech. I just want to drive Taft to distraction-senatorial...
...release, he was forcibly inducted into the Army, forcibly dressed in uniform; a tall Welsh Guardsman, who was to escort him back to Wales, ordered him to shoulder his pack. Homer refused. The deadlock continued till a crowd gathered. Finally a grey-haired little man stepped forward, quietly picked up the pack and murmured: "Come along, Arthur." It was Arthur Horner's father. Arthur's finish to the story: "Of course, as we got round the corner, I took the pack from the old man-but I was damned if I was going to cave in under...
...armchair lecturegoer with a simple twist of the wrist can hear anything from Homer's Odyssey to an explanation of the weather by lecturers drawn from the staffs of Harvard, Boston College, Boston University Lowell Institute, M.I.T. Northeastern, and Tufts...