Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heiresses of Carry Nation are not giving up easily, however. National W.C.T.U. President Mrs. Ruth Tooze warned: "The shadow of the saloon is lengthening over Evanston. Soon our streets will be filled with drunks. Mrs. Mary Alice Nelson, a sympathetic teetotaler, pleaded: "Preserve our city, our beautiful city, so my grandchildren will have a clean place to live." The W.C.T.U. has organized groups to pray for a dry Evanston...
...farfetched. Ed Brooke is not in the first rank of prospects to replace Spiro Agnew if Nixon decides next summer that the present Vice President is more of a political liability than an asset. The men most often named now are Treasury Secretary John Connally and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. But the possibility of Brooke fascinates political leaders...
...Cahill's presence, which the men inside the prison learned about from radio announcements, probably contributed to a swift and peaceful settlement. The Governor said later that he would have done whatever was possible to avoid bloodshed. "I probably would have gone in myself." New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller had refused to travel to Attica, arguing that he could not negotiate with the rebelling inmates...
...obscure invention for any historic event to occur, but the result was one of the most successful single products ever put on sale: the Xerox machine. By the time he died of a heart attack last week at the age of 61, while lunching in Manhattan with Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, Wilson had turned the modest Rochester firm that he took over from his father in 1946 into a $1.7 billion-a-year giant...
...Alcoholic Beverages Commission, according to Executive Director George Nelson, received a complaint about the practice earlier in the week. Nelson refused to disclose the origin of the complaint...