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Word: pearsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kansas, G.O.P. Congressman Bob Ellsworth is trying to strengthen his long-shot bid to wrest the senatorial nomination from Incumbent James Pearson by demanding redoubled efforts for negotiations and a place for the Viet Cong at the bargaining table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: The Peace Candidates | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...food, raw materials and medical supplies. Well aware that the use of the Royal Navy could provoke sympathy strikes by dockers and truckers handling imported goods, Wilson's government later in the week announced that an independent four-man court of inquiry, headed by Appeals Court Justice Lord Pearson, would investigate the seamen's pay and working conditions and file a report that would serve as a basis for new negotiations. Since the Pearson inquiry is expected to take anywhere from twelve to 14 days, the strike itself could go on for a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Ready for Emergency | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

Canada's celebrated "Munsinger Affair" is more than just a national security flap. It represents a bitter personal contest-possibly to the political death-between Liberal Prime Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson, 69, and former Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 70. If Pearson proves his point that Diefenbaker's onetime Associate Defense Minister jeopardized national security in his relationship with 36-year-old German Playgirl Gerda Munsinger, then Diefenbaker could find himself on the way out as opposition leader. If Pearson does not make his case, he might be the one to go. Last week, after five days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Man on the Spot | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Concatenation of Cumshaw. Dodd's affairs have become the Dodd affair because of a muckraking series of articles by Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. On the basis of files fed to them by at least one disgruntled former assistant to Dodd, they charged that the white-haired, square-jawed former FBI agent accepted a concatenation of cumshaw from all manner of individuals and companies seeking official favors from him. The payola, claimed the columnists, included a sapphire ring for his wife, a television set for his office, shoes for some of his family, carpeting for his house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Acceptance Factor | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...American Way." The roughest of the Pearson-Anderson series came in March and April, when the columnists accused Dodd of diverting to his personal use more than $100,000 raised at testimonial dinners in 1961 and 1963, at which then Vice President Lyndon Johnson was the guest of honor. Later, it developed there was a third dinner last year featuring Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Under persistent badgering from the press, the IRS said that such income was tax-free-even if not spent on legitimate campaign purposes -provided that the donors intended the money as personal presents rather than campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Acceptance Factor | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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