Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week General Sherman had South Carolina and Georgia howling again. This time the harsh old warrior was going forth as an engraved image on a harmless new 3? stamp with likenesses of his old accomplices, General Ulysses Simpson Grant and General Philip Henry Sheridan at his side. But to many Georgians and South Carolinians, General Sherman is still repugnant in any form. At Columbia, where an indignant legislator heatedly recalled that the west wall of the State Capitol still bears scars made by Sherman's cannon balls, the South Carolina House oi Representatives passed a resolution calling upon...
...this sense is not only important, but in my opinion a vital necessity!" To this, British Reds replied by chalking the street in front of the German Embassy in huge letters: "RIBBENTROP MUST GO!" He not only did not go but soon moved in the set of Mrs. Ernest Simpson and King Edward to an extent which started Mayfair wondering and whispering about whether His Majesty's lady could possibly be a "German agent." In the House of Commons excitable William Gallacher, then as now the sole Communist M. P. (see p. 23), stormed: "[The Ambassador] comes with...
...parties united in stormily denouncing the British Newspaper Proprietors' Association last week. During the months and years in which the story of Mrs. Simpson grew abroad, the docile N. P. A. muzzled itself under Government pressure and kept mum as long as possible, but recently its reporters and cameramen have "got completely out of hand"-in the House of Commons' opinion...
...Year's Day, was just about as it would have been if issued by King Edward, or had been severely pruned of numbers of his friends. Various stars and orders were handed by George VI to such people as the captain of the yacht on which Edward & Mrs. Simpson cruised; to the most convivial of the ex-King's equerries, Major Sir John ("Jackie") Renton Aird; and to Edward VIII's air pilot, Wing Commander Edward Hedley ("Mouse") Fielden. When famed "Mouse" did not elect to serve the Duke of Windsor, London newspapers printed that...
...James Simpson, a Scotsman from Glasgow, was shooting tigers near Bhopal, India, in 1932 when a cable from Chicago caught up with him. Big businessmen and bedraggled bankers begged him to hurry home and assume three basic posts in the ravaged Insull empire. Back to a dreary city in 14 days came James Simpson from India. He resigned as chairman of Marshall Field & Co., in which he holds more stock than even the Field estate, replaced Samuel Insull as chairman of Commonwealth Edison Co., Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois and Peoples Gas Light & Coke...