Word: owen
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...investigation proceeded, Howard Hughes in California exchanged long-range insults with Maine's Senator Owen Brewster, chairman of the full senatorial committee. Speaking as chief stockholder of T.W.A., Hughes proclaimed (in a series of signed articles in the Hearst papers) that the real reason behind the investigation was Hughes's refusal to accept an offer of merger with Brewster's good friend Juan Trippe of Pan-American. In Washington, Brewster promptly offered to waive congressional immunity and take the stand. He piously referred newsmen to Nehemiah 6* for his answer to Hughes...
...Senator Owen Brewster of Maine is holding high his torch, attempting to illuminate the sex, sin and Scotch with which he claims Howard Hughes and his press agent Johnny Meyer enticed a willing Elliott Roosevelt into handing them a juicy war contract. Pin-up addicts, tabloid readers, and desk bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard...
Away back, Harry Truman's Senate War Investigating Committee had taken a couple of quick sniffs at the war contracts let to Howard Hughes, the West Coast plane builder, movie producer and bachelor millionaire. Last February, the SWIC, now headed by Maine's loud and mistrustful Owen Brewster, sniffed at Hughes again. The committee was still sniffing cautiously last week when a rank outsider, slight, swarthy Society Columnist Igor Cassini (Cholly Knickerbocker), suddenly lit on an angle that took the sniffing out of congressional back rooms and into the headlines. The Hughes probe was loaded with girls...
Died. Robert Latham Owen, 91, one of Oklahoma's first two Senators (from 1907 until he went blind in 1925), co-author of the Federal Reserve Act (which in 1939 he called a failure owing to poor administration), and great friend of the Indian (he was part Cherokee); in Washington...
...Owen's dickering urge is so strong that his wife is hardly able to get him to buy her a new saddle horse: "He's likely to sell [it] on the way home." Away from horseflesh, Owen is not so shrewd. Recently he lost around $125,000 on a zinc mine. However, he expects to make up much of the loss on his Mexican deal. Already he has shipped 1,000 mules, has another 1,000 ready to go. He figures on filling the rest of his contract long before Congress gets around to doing anything about mules...