Word: simpson
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Charles O'Conor, nominee of the "Straight Out" or "Bourbon" Democrats, was indeed a Catholic. But the major candidates in 1872 were Ulysses Simpson Grant (Republican-3,597,132 votes) and Horace Greeley (supported by Democrats and Liberal Republicans-2,834,125 votes). Count received by Candidate O'Conor...
...Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. It got so cold the drinking water froze, and the men would have too, but for their silk undergarments, leather breeches and turtlenecked sweaters. Only Baidukoff took a nap. Chkaloff stayed at the controls steadily, nursed his ship down over Prince Patrick Island to Ft. Simpson in far northern Canada, then veered to the Pacific Coast, headed down...
...Newspaper Alliance: ''I predict that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will break up in less than two years. I base my bet on the letters, some 300 of them a day, that I have been receiving from women everywhere during the last eight years. . . . What Mrs. Simpson and the Duke did is not the sort of thing we would stand for in the White House. No American President has ever put to the people the question: Can I take another man's wife and make her mine? If he did we would be hearing from...
Settled. The slander suit brought by Ernest Aldrich Simpson, onetime (1928-37) husband of the Duchess of Windsor, against Mrs. Joan Sutherland, London socialite; in London; out of court. At a luncheon party Mrs. Sutherland allegedly gossiped that Mr. Simpson had been "well paid" to let his wife divorce him. Unknown to Mrs. Sutherland, Mrs. Peter Kerr-Smiley, Mr. Simpson's sister, was sitting beside...
...reunion of descendants of Confederate and Union veterans of the 47-day siege of Vicksburg, Miss., went Colonel Ulysses Simpson Grant III U.S.A. and Manhattan Lawyer John Clifford Pernberton III, grandsons respectively of Vicksburg's Union besieger and Confederate defender. Said Grandson Grant, shaking hands: "Two good Generals and a great fight." Said Grandson Pemberton: "Yes, but they paid off on your grand-daddy...