Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FREDERICK SIMPSON...
Died. Sid Simpson, 64, Republican Congressman from Illinois, who was running for re-election this year; of a heart attack; in Pittsfield...
...same time, such White House aides as Deputy Presidential Assistant Wilton B. Persons and Presidential Counsel Gerald Morgan were fighting hard to save Adams. But the pressures were too great; e.g., it took all of Alcorn's powers of persuasion to stop Pennsylvania's Richard Simpson, chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee, from publicly demanding Adams' ouster. When Meade Alcorn returned from Chicago on Aug. 28 with his report to the President, Adams...
...Simpson, Kans...
...bill) that baffled Tariff Lobbyist Oscar R. Strackbein, after betting a month before on a victory for the protectionists, glumly observed: "I have never seen such pressure since the days of Franklin Roosevelt." In the last days before the floor debate, Republicans trudged into Dick Simpson's office to ask him to release them from their promises to vote with him. A vote against reciprocal trade, one explained, would cost him White House support for a bill that he badly wanted for his district. Other helpful Administration tactics: weakening the tariff urge among Congressmen from oil and mining states...