Word: simpsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...things: 1) they can bolt the President without fear of political punishment or reprisal, and 2) there is no political advantage in standing up for him. Congressional leaders declare privately that Ike has neither time nor stamina for heavy campaigning this year. Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Richard M. Simpson complains that he has not seen the President to discuss campaign plans since Ike's stroke. In Chicago last week, the President closeted himself in a stockyards suite before his speech, accepted a short courtesy call from Governor William Stratton, but was unavailable to 50 Illinois candidates who hoped...
...White House think it can pass its program without Democratic votes?" But mingled with criticism there was plenty of praise, especially from the Republican pros. In one day Meade Alcorn got 18 pro-Adams telephone calls from national committeemen and state chairmen. And Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Richard M. Simpson, ordinarily a lukewarm supporter of Sherman Adams, was suddenly on fire. Said he: "It was the best speech of them all. We would like to use Adams any time we could...
...verge of a new cinemacting career, Sloan Simpson, erstwhile TV Chit-chatter and ex-wife of New York City's onetime Mayor William O'Dwyer, freshened her makeup while lounging provocatively in a barber's chair at a Bronx (N.Y.) movie studio. Sloan's first movie role will be as a cop's wife in an "it-could-happen-to-you" dope opera titled The Pusher, now in production...
Casehardened with Tradition. Teacher Genevieve Simpson (B.A.1922) was surprised to find that the algebra taught in the ordinary classroom is "not a part of modern algebra at all." Teacher Edgar Arnold (B.E. 1930) found that "this is all new to me. I have to unlearn old symbols and learn new ones. We are casehardened with tradition." "In modern math," adds Teacher Helene Lannon, who got her master's degree as late as 1948, "we have had to learn a new vocabulary. In the traditional mathematics we would say 'cancel out numbers.' Now you say 'divide...
Just as serious as the passenger problem, in the railroadmen's view, are Government controls that prevent the railroads from cutting their freight rates to competitive levels, thus letting much of their freight business go to trucks. Baltimore & Ohio President Howard E. Simpson argued that Congress should pass a law to permit transportation systems to cut rates "irrespective of the effect upon competing modes of transportation...