Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mary B. Newman, Cambridge state representative, claimed in a recent news-letter that her removal from the Massachusetts Committee on Labor and Industries was an act of retribution by House Speaker John F. ("Iron Duke") Thompson...
...Newman, who opposed Thompson's re-election as speaker, criticized in the newsletter his misuse of "committee assignments as a system of reward and punishments, with complete indifference to the important part these committees play in carrying on the work of the Legislature...
...regime has come from the discontented electorate in central Canada, urban voters who solidly backed the Liberals in the election last June. Diefenbaker's obvious last-ditch attempt to win the urban vote by promising urban development and redevelopment assistance will likely go unanswered. Social Credit leader Robert N. Thompson has summed up the Prime Minister's plight very succinctly: "Too little, too late...
...national scene, Socred leader Thompson is very optimistic about his party's future. Social Credit will run candidates in each of the 265 constituencies in the nation, expecting to make its largest gains in Quebec, New Brunswick, and British Columbia. Socred should show slight gains in rural areas but Dupuis and the Liberals should keep Socred representation from mushrooming...
...Sunday morning to render some reflections on a petty instance of civic corruption for the Columbia Broadcasting System, in a great cavern where nine of my fellow unemployed sat, each behind an office desk.'' Lacquered up with makeup that "would seem a little too much to Sadie Thompson," Kempton found the studio trying to put him at ease with a TelePrompTer, but "only private detectives conduct private conversations while looking fixedly at the person addressed and private detectives do not set their eyes on the subject's forehead." So he sat, "an actor...