Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fine Republican weather," announced New York County's Republican Chairman Kenneth Simpson to a group of reporters at a Manhattan polling place at 5 o'clock one morning last week. Taking another sniff, he added: "Victory...
What made these auguries even more empty than usual last week was the plain fact that neither had a bona fide candidate for Mayor of New York. No one knew better than Chairman Simpson that his election alliance with independent little Republican-Progressive-New Dealer Fiorello H. LaGuardia and his Fusion Party was strictly an affair of convenience. No happier was Tammany, which, having provoked a revolt among Democrats outside Manhattan by running fumbling anti-New Deal Senator Royal S. Copeland in both the Republican and Democratic primaries, had almost as little stake in clean-cut but colorless Democratic Candidate...
When Edward VIII less than a year ago abdicated the throne of England to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, it was clear that almost anything he did thereafter would be a painful anticlimax. Last week, the activities of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor attained a crescendo of anticlimax that was almost as newsworthy as the abdication. The crescendo started with the arrival in the U. S. last fortnight of a Mephistophelean little Franco-American efficiency expert, named Charles E. Bedaux, as advance agent for the proposed Windsor tour of the U. S. to study housing and industry, scheduled to start...
...Bedaux arrived on the Europa same day that Captain Ernest Aldrich Simpson was discovered among the Queen Mary's, disembarking passengers (see p. 40) along with British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Sir Ronald divulged that he had "dropped around" to see Mr. Bedaux in London about Windsor's plans, had himself "scratched down the names of a few cities" as possible suggestions. Mr. Bedaux, after going into a half hour huddle with his lawyer, denied that he was the Duke's "manager," said the Duke preferred to make his own announcements. Nobody knew whether...
...Queen Mary docked in Manhattan, reporters clamored around Ernest Aldrich Simpson, divorced husband of the Duchess of Windsor, quizzing him about the Duchess and about whether he intended to remarry. Said Mr. Simpson: "Oh, let's have another drink...