Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Empire and world interest focused last week on a tiny old man with a knob of a head, thin greying hair and gold-rimmed spectacles. This was the mysterious "intervener" in the divorce case of Mrs. Simpson. It was he who alone seized and exercised a right possessed by every British subject after a decree nisi of divorce has been granted in the Kingdom, namely the right at any time in the following six months to tip off the King's Proctor that there is something fishy about the case and demand that the Attorney General reopen it with...
...Simpson holy deadlocked, and on Dec. 10 His Majesty decided to abdicate. On Dec. 14 the knob-headed little intervener moved to withdraw his intervention. He was in court last week to explain his series of actions - so suggestive of a successful effort to bamboozle an overwrought man in love, especially since knob-head Stephenson plies the trade of managing clerk in a firm of London lawyers whose important clients unquestionably sided with the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin...
Emotion, not facts, carried the Prime Minister to magnificent success in the Abdication Crisis, and last week Intervener Stephenson explained his actions entirely in terms of most convincing British emotion. "I had not an ounce of respect left for Mrs. Simpson," he sturdily declared. "It was just that I was so much moved by the words of His late Majesty's broadcast...
...three who will oppose the current plan for court reorganization are Sidney P. Simpson professor of law, who is recognized for his knowledge of equity; Edward M. Dodd, professor of law, on corporations; and George K. Gardner '11, professor of law, a lecturer on contracts and insurance...
...Burton T. Simpson, State Institute for the Study of Malignant Disease, Buffalo...