Word: elmo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Former Neighbor. Still, the Lodge boom has raised puzzling questions in Oregon, questions of the kind raised by that editorial in the Medford Mail Tribune. Says State G.O.P. Chairman Elmo Smith, a former Governor: "This Lodge deal is one of the most fantastic things that's ever occurred in American politics. All it represents is a lack of firm conviction on the part of the voters in their ability to accept anyone else." Republican Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. adds: "I'm struck by the number of people who don't have the vaguest notion...
...Nixon campaign. "Dick Nixon could field an organization yet that could put on a professional-type campaign," says one G.O.P. official. "People here identify with him. He's a former neighbor. There's a certain parochial geographic factor; it's latent and it could be stimulated." Elmo Smith agrees: "If Nixon came in, he'd eat at all of them some. He would pick up quite a bit of the middle-road or slightly conservative vote. Lodge would be hurt the most. I'd go a long...
...nasty series of jolts. He could not button his shirt, tie his shoes, spell certain kinds of words; worst of all, he could no longer operate a typewriter. A former managing editor of FORTUNE, author of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, and an associate of Pollster Elmo Roper, Hodgins felt almost as dependent on his typewriter as a scuba diver on his air tank. Faced with a future of uselessness, he no longer wanted a future at all. He began waking up each morning "with one dominating thought: how pleasant and simple 'a solution it would...
...Blood is thicker than politics," lifelong Republican Elmo Mennen Williams once said by way of explaining her unwavering support of her Democratic son, former Michigan Governor and current Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams. And when the will of the Mennen toiletries heiress was probated after her death at 80 of a heart attack, it turned out that blood was thicker than charity, too. Noting that she had made frequent charitable contributions in her lifetime, she left the bulk of her $1,000,000 estate to her three sons and nine grandchildren. All real...
...ELMO ST. JOHN New York City...