Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HAMPSHIRE. Obdurate as a boulder of New Hampshire granite, Republican Governor Meldrim Thomson, 62, conducted his primary campaign as though he had never heard of the 20th century. He was against-or indifferent to-the fashionable political trends: demands for consumer protection, campaign reform, saving the environment, helping the elderly, creating an energy policy. In contrast, those issues were all favored by Thomson's opponent, David Nixon, 42, president of the New Hampshire senate and-since there is no Lieutenant Governor-the second-highest official in the state. What's more, Nixon, no kin to the ex-President...
...survivors have suffered staggering losses-$47.8 million for the 435 remaining N.Y.S.E. retail firms in April of this year alone. Last week it was the turn of one of Wall Street's oldest houses: W.E. Hutton & Co., founded in 1886, confirmed that it was talking merger with Thomson & McKinnon Auchincloss Kohlmeyer...
Still, partially out of force of habit, the caucuses stirred themselves out of hibernation briefly this spring to participate halfheartedly in the council elections. Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government, put together a conservative slate in consultation with, he said "10 or 20 or 30 people." The liberals, meanwhile, were caught napping and had to get Rosovsky to add liberal nominees to the ballot...
...James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Fellowships, said Friday that the nominating board made no attempt to select either women or blacks...
...conservative slate, organized by Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government, suffered only one serious loss, when B. Irvin DeVore, professor of Anthropology, a liberal, defeated Nathan Keyfitz, Andelot Professor of Sociology...