Word: livsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, Republican Senator Wesley Livsey Jones, longtime Dry, was renominated over a Wet. For the Senate, Democrats picked Homer T. Bone whose brother Scott used to be Governor of Alaska. Nominee Bone, an ardent "public ownership" man, is viewed with alarm by conservatives who will support Senator Jones. The Jones-Bone fight in November is expected to be close. Here again Demo-crats upped their primary vote in two years from 16,000 to 154,000 whereas Republicans let theirs fall from 297,000 to 170,000. Roland H. Hartley, Republican Governor for the last eight years, was defeated...
...Aurora, Ill., Justice Galvin married David Livsey and Fay Sutcliffe. The wedding service: "Do you this lady for your wife take, to pay her bills, praise her steak? To honor and love and keep her well from the marriage hour to the funeral bell? Cherish her well, in sickness or health, to share in poverty or in wealth? Walk the floor when the baby comes? Buy it rattles, bottles, drums? Love her well enough for this? Take the lady with a kiss...
...David Livsey...
Senator Wesley Livsey Jones was driving placidly home to his ranch near Wenatchee, Wash, one day last week when on a narrow road his automobile confronted another from the opposite direction. He stopped as the other car, unable to pass, ran into a bank. Two youngsters jumped out of it, fled up into the bushes. Behind them came speeding a third machine out of which jumped two more men with revolvers. Senator Jones in open-mouthed wonder, watched them also disappear into the bushes, heard shots. Soon they emerged with the runaways, one of whom was wounded. Senator Jones...
...equally applicable to the effect of Prohibition on political machines, which understand themselves even less than each other. Party organizations in many a State are rent and torn by the liquor question. The Washington State Republican convention went abruptly Wet last May while the State's Republican Senator Wesley Livsey Jones was glittering most brightly as a Dry. The New York G. O. P., about to nominate a Governor, jiggled about last week in frantic uncertainty. Massachusetts Republicans last week concluded a fierce Wet-&-Dry primary fight (see page 15). Prohibition has badly tangled the affairs of Republicans in Illinois...