Word: vic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vic KASPER...
Victor Meyers' sudden resolution horrified a Seattle Times reporter named Doug Welch. Reason: the Times was running Vic for mayor to express its jaundiced opinion of the serious candidates, and it was Welch's chore to keep him funny. Welch gave Vic a card to hand to toastmasters. The card read...
...Vic was a bandleader at this point in his career and had entered into the gag campaign amicably enough. But the heady fumes of politics seeped up his nose and changed him for good. After his defeat, he looked back on the mayoralty campaign morosely, convinced that he might have won if Welch had let him talk. So he filed for Lieutenant Governor of the state; a Democrat, he was not a bit surprised when he was elected in the Roosevelt landslide...
...Vic Meyers set out to become a statesman. When a reporter told him he would have to learn parliamentary law if he was to preside over the state senate, Vic said: "To hell with that. Good old American law is what we're going to have...
...When Vic came back to the scene of his early embarrassment, and filed for mayor of Seattle last winter, the city was delighted. Some politicos even guessed that he had a chance. The incumbent, Mayor William F. Devin, a good, dull, reform mayor, had followed close on the heels of an earlier good, dull reform mayor with no joker in between. Perhaps the voters would make a change, just for laughs. But by last week Seattle had learned the shattering truth-Vic was a serious man, too. He was through with gags...