Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admissions officers at the Medical School, Law School, and School of Education indicated last week that they had no plans to revise the various applications, deadlines. "We don't see signs of any sharp increase in the number of applications," Russell A. Simpson, director of Admissions at the Law School said. "Even if we did, we probably wouldn't want to push a student to make a decision he may regret later in the year...
When Edward VIII decided in 1936 to marry twice-divorced Wallis Warfield Simpson, the King's friend Lord Beaverbrook was one of the first to rally to his side. Not that the Canadian-born press lord was impressed by Baltimore-bred Mrs. Simpson. He noted with a hint of irony that she had protested that she knew nothing about politics and was inexperienced in worldly affairs. Besides, "She was plainly dressed and I was not attracted to her style of hairdressing." Beaverbrook's basic motives seemed to be that he loved a good scrap, especially against the established...
...informative best when he sticks to a straight narrative of the events that eventually led to the abdication. He felt, as did most other insiders, that Edward made his greatest strategic blunder when he stated in November that unless Baldwin and his government approved a morganatic marriage with Mrs. Simpson, he would not go through with his coronation in May. Both Beaverbrook and Winston Churchill advised him to put aside his marriage plans until after the coronation, and then press his demands with the power of the throne behind him. Edward insisted on a guarantee, before he was crowned, that...
...back to state courts so readily as they used to; the 1964 Civil Rights Act permits remand orders to be appealed. Negroes still face a major hurdle: Southern federal district judges. Many are scrupulously fair, notably Alabama's Frank Johnson, an Eisenhower appointee, and Florida's Bryan Simpson, a Truman appointee. But others are deeply segregationist, a problem largely attributable to the Kennedy Administration, which surprisingly named such men as Mississippi's William H. Cox, who once described the Negroes involved in a case before him as nothing but a bunch of "chimpanzees" who "ought...
Cincinnati shipped 30-year old Frank Robinson to the American League to try his hand with Baltimore. In return, the Reds got Milt Pappas, Jack Baldschun, and Dick Simpson. Pappas will join Jim Maloney, Sam Ellis, and Joey Jay in the starting pitchers' rotation. Relief help will come largely from erratic Jim O'Toole and veteran Joe Nux-hall...