Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...splinter parties, with 41 seats between them, had both promised support on most issues. A frantic argument shook the funny-money Social Credit Party over six Quebec M.P.s who bolted party lines, independently promised their votes to Pearson. "I will not tolerate any deals," said Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson, hinting darkly that the Liberals had been spreading some "rather handsome" money around. But after eleven hours of impassioned oratory at a party caucus in Ottawa, the defectors recanted. As soon as they did, Thompson grandly announced that all 24 of his Socreds would support the Liberals anyway, and urged...
...bill, sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Harrison Williams (D-N.J.), and in the House by Rep. Frank Thompson (D-N.J.), would limit the Corps to 1000 members during its first year of operation. Ultimately, the Corps might be expanded to 5000 or more...
Died. John Wesley Thompson Faulkner III. 61, younger brother of Author William, a novelist and painter in his own right who created in words and oil paintings a picture of the Deep South at once broadly humorous and fiercely tragic, most notably in his first two books...
...narrowest victories last June, up to 10 Social Credit seats are gravely challenged. Quebec voters now find Social Credit a more confusing party than the party of last June. The party now has three voices in Quebec--often conflicting--that of the mercurial Caouette, the party leader Thompson and Mr. Cook, the popular, somewhat dissident member from Montmagny L'Islet. It is perhaps fair to ask how long such a divided party can stand as a valid repository of Quebec allegiance, especially when Quebec voters like their choices to be clear-cut and forthright...
...took six ballots for Thompson, a Democrat, to overcome opposition to his re-election. This was in spite of the large Democratic majority (150 to 90) in the House...