Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico Democratic Governor John F. Simms Jr. (pro-Stevenson) narrowly missed becoming the first incumbent governor in the state's history to lose in a primary election, defeated State Corporation Commissioner Ingram B. Pickett (pro-Harriman) by less than 2,300 votes. Simms will face ex-Governor Edwin L. Mechem, the Republican choice...
Accountant Robert John Edwin Mc-Kerrow's undeniable skill with figures had brought him some doubtful rewards, among them a number of convictions for forgery and embezzlement. But a good talent is hard to suppress, and when British-born McKerrow was sentenced to 4½ years in Kampala's Luzira Prison for juggling an employer's books to the tune of $14,000, he was promptly assigned to take care of the prison accounts...
...write his prospective employers to tell them that he might be delayed in reporting for duty. A shortage of $1.400 in the prison books and a considerable cache of money found in Mc-Kerrow's cell led to an investigation, a trial, and the sentencing of Robert John Edwin McKerrow to 18 months more at "hard" labor...
...asked Edwin Roy Hamlett, 34, an auto salesman. "We're police officers," shouted Deputy Parks, and the door opened. "All right," rasped Parks, "where's it hidden?" Hamlett protested that he did not know what they were talking about. Reporter Cook, a high-school halfback who packs 210 lbs. into his 6 ft. 1 in. frame, took turns with Parks trying to cuff a confession about the robbery out of Hamlett...
...apologies for a method of selection which produced the nomination of Harry S. Truman" [in 1944, when Wallace was dropped], he is talking like a narrow-minded politician. Roosevelt had far, far less part in picking Truman than did Hannegan and Flynn, two professional politicians working closely with Edwin W. Pauley, an oil man, over a period of several months...