Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State Senator Richard Richards, the fair-haired boy of young Democracy, fared scarcely better against Kuchel in Eisenhower's 1956 popularity contest. Idealists like Ray Simpson in the 18th C.D. spoke long and futile words about the hydrogen bomb and American foreign policy. The public delivered no mandates...
Died. William Rooe Simpson, 60, last of five generations of William Simpsons who operated (from 1822 to 1937) an elegant pawnshop on New York's Lower East Side, blithe lender of money against such collateral as the Hope diamond, a Stradivarius, Titian paintings, 15th century manuscripts and pornographic watches, subject of lively reminiscences (Hockshop); of a heart attack; in Brownsville, Texas...
...general public has substantially abandoned its use of trains for other modes of travel." So said Baltimore & Ohio Railroad President Howard E. Simpson last week as the B. & O. petitioned the public service commissions of Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania for permission to drop its Baltimore-New York City passenger service, once esteemed as the "prestige run." Simpson, himself one of the few top railroaders to rise through the passenger department, had good reason to request a cutback. Of the B. & O.'s $34 million passenger deficit last year, $5,000,000 came from the six daily Baltimore-New York...
BOSTON, Sept. 27--Rifle-armed Bob Turley surrendered only two hits in seven innings and Harry Simpson drove in four runs today as the New York Yankees flexed their World Series muscles in a 10-2 victory over Boston...
...outspoken critic of the kind of exploitative industrialization that Westerners blame for dotting their country with mining and timber ghost towns, Simpson is at the same time a tireless exponent of responsible economic development. In his administration Wyoming, already friendly toward new investment, made the welcome well-nigh irresistible. Against a tendency of other Rocky Mountain states to "make industry pay" by levying special taxes, e.g., a severance tax on minerals taken out of the ground and shipped away, Wyoming hewed to an exceptionally favorable tax policy supported by Democrats as well as Republicans. Not only is there no severance...