Word: thompson
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...copies of his original document to several friends, patently assuming that they would see for themselves that it was superior to the one finally adopted. At one point during the session, the mellow Franklin attempted to console Jefferson by telling him an anecdote about a Philadelphia hatter named John Thompson who had a sign made for his shop that read: JOHN THOMPSON, HATTER, MAKES AND SELLS HATS FOR READY MONEY, with a picture of a hat underneath. But before hanging the sign. Thompson showed it to friends, each of whom criticized some word or phrase ("Sells hats!" cried...
Other delegates to the OAS meeting felt that Kissinger had not gone far enough. Among the critics was outspoken Foreign Minister Dudley Thompson of Jamaica, an island nation where there are widespread fears that recent outbreaks of violence involve U.S. efforts to "destabilize" the moderately leftist government. "He didn't go far enough," said Thompson. "Those kind of comments run off Chile's back like water off a duck." More sharply, Thompson wondered how a German-born Jew like Kissinger could not be more sensitive to the brutalities of Pinochet's regime. "That...
...violence tabulation" showing that brutality on TV has been decreasing lately. It may be a consequence of good policy and good business at work. Violence is getting boring, and some advertisers think it may not be selling their products. Says Arnold Grisman, an executive vice president of J. Walter Thompson, the world's largest ad agency: "What shocked us yesterday does not shock us today ... violence dominates our time-but at the same time we keep escalating the violence scale." Pointing out that the public was heading for a "sensory overload," Grisman declared that his agency is recommending...
...exactly why Richard Daley needs Adlai Stevenson this year. Michael Howlett, secretary of state and a Daley man, knocked off anti-Daley incumbent Gov. Dan Walker in the March primary, but this fall Howlett faces a very tough race against the Republican candidate: former U.S. Attorney James R. Thompson. Thompson is the reformer who has sent dozens of Daley's closest friends and associates to jail in recent years and the mere mention of his name is enough to make the Mayor and his henchmen apoplectic...
Daley is a very personal Godfather-like politician and when something touches him closely he does not easily forget. County office-holders, police captains, aldermen, the Mayor's own press secretary and even a former Illinois governor, are among Thompson's victims. Daley's floor leader in the city council just went behind federal bars last month. All of this combined with the fact that he wants a friendly face in the statehouse after battling Walker every inch of the way for four years, could make the Mayor go to any lengths to destroy Thompson in November. Howlett defeated Walker...