Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago's Joseph Medill Patterson, is in the air. Thus, a month ago, he wrote the above Kipling (with emendations) for his nickel Liberty. Then he boarded his $75.000 Sikorsky amphibian, Liberty, flew to the Caribbean (TIME, Dec. 10). With him flew a vivacious married daughter, Alicia Patterson Simpson,* 22, who a while ago preferred reporting for her father's Manhattan tabloid (Daily News) to dancing with Chicago's eligibles. He also took Lieut. Frederick Becker as pilot, Engineer Sutter, Radioman Roe and Newsman Floyd Gibbons. In Liberty's red leather and lacquer cabin Publisher Patterson...
...Spouse of James Simpson Jr.. son of James Simpson, potent president of Marshall Field...
...proudly etched in brass tacks on the trunk he was to take on his unwilling way to West Point. Suspecting that fellow cadets would guy him for initials H. U. G., he plucked out the tacks, signed himself reversely Ulysses Hiram. But the registrar had him down as Ulysses Simpson Grant (an absent-minded senator had assumed the mother's maiden name) and refused him admittance without authorization from Washington. Ulysses, characteristically impatient of government red tape, made short shrift by changing his signature to U. S. Grant...
When he got back in office last year, Mayor Thompson called loudly upon men like President James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co., Utility Man Samuel Insull, John Hertz of Yellow Cabs, William (Gum) Wrigley Jr. and Promoter George F. Getz, to serve on a grandiose committee which later proved to be only one more vehicle for Thompsonian publicity. With the Mayor increasingly bogged and discredited, the Mayor's committee has awakened to its opportunity, to Chicago's necessity. Last week the Chicago potentates were considering taking .the city's affairs-debts, taxes, crime, public works...
Married. Princess Zenaida Mihailovna Cantacuzene, great granddaughter of Ulysses Simpson Grant; and John Coldbrook Hanbury-Williams, son of Major General Sir John Hanbury-Williams of London; in Washington, D. C. President & Mrs. Coolidge attended the wedding...