Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good job discrediting Loeb, he is worthy of praise for his effort, particularly since this is the New Hampshire primary season, usually the Union Leader's peak power period. The book has quickly become the largest seller in the history of New Hampshire. Both Loeb and Governor Meldrim Thomson have sued Cash for libel, and Loeb's personal history is suddenly a topic of national curiosity...
...terms of the support his candidates for public office receive. Certainly there is a hard core Loeb constituency in New Hampshire. Indeed an actual Loeb party, a Republican faction, has played a key role in state politics for a long time. But the political success of reactionaries like Meldrim Thomson and Wesley Powell is only one standard with which to measure the Loeb influence. The Union Leader informs the political dynamic of New Hampshire on a more subtle, day-to-day basis. Public discussion of the need for a sales tax has become a practical impossibility; increased aid to education...
Samuel P. Huntington, Thomson professor of Government, said yesterday he disagreed with Mandelbaum's position. Voluntarily removing himself from consideration "goes against Rockefeller's previous actions in his 30 years in politics," Huntington said...
...clippings in their scrapbooks. In almost every city and hamlet, Americans can see that the politicians who went to Washington now talk and act like men in a different nation from their fellow politicians who stayed back home. They see that their Governors-Lucey, Brown, Ray, Longley, Dukakis, Walker, Thomson, Evans-are true executives and make real decisions. Senators talk and shake hands...
Died. Sir George Paget Thomson, 83, British physicist and chairman of the wartime committee that confirmed the feasibility of building an atomic bomb; in Cambridge, England. Thomson's father, Sir Joseph, discovered the electron in 1897 and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906; 31 years later, Sir George shared the same prize for his work on the wavelike movement of electrons. After the war, Sir George became a strong advocate of international atomic energy control...