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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington, the senatorial sire of the Five & Ten Act, doubtless never gave a thought to the publicity he would come in for. But last week he made it clear he resented joining Mr. Volstead's category. Emphatically he protested: "There is no Jones law!" By this he meant, hairsplitting, that his measure, increasing prohibition penalties to five years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine, was merely an amendment to the Volstead Act and should therefore be anonymous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Five & Ten | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Bradley, Columbus, Ga., textile man and banker. President is Robert W. Woodruff, who came to Coca-Cola from Cleveland's White Motor Co., where he was vice president and general manager. Popular thirst for Coco-Cola is apparently unabated; pleasing are its prospects for 1929. "Died on -, at Wesley Memorial Hospital, Asa G. Candler. Funeral obsequies will be observed at his late residence, 1428 Ponce de Leon Avenue, at 11 in the forenoon on . Interment will be at West View, private. H. M. Patterson and son in charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Atlanta's First | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Watson, and not upon the more Hooveresque candidate. Senator Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington. Senator Watson is 64. Two-thirds of his lifetime has been devoted to politics. The measure of his greatness is that if one were asked to pick a man in Washington who best typifies the popular idea of an old-style politician the choice would almost inevitably fall upon him. The Watson handshake is magnificent. The Watson cordiality to constituents, the Watson geniality towards colleagues, are vasty and impressive. The Watson oratory has been variously and unkindly described as "gusty," "oleaginous" and even "blowsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leader Watson | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Thereupon pompous Wesley Dexter offered himself richly in marriage, and Missie dared not disappoint her grandmother by marrying the florist's son instead. Wesley proved unfaithful, unbearable; but Missie did not divorce him in spite of her love for an excellent man, the successor to the florist's son. The reasons: her sacred marriage vows, her duty to her son. That the son should turn on her years later seemed but the fitting sequel to a selfless, pathetic life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Selfless Life | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...entire chasm from a plant to a man, is filled up with divers kinds of creatures, rising one above another, by so gentle an ascent, that the transitions from one species to another are almost insensible. . . . The ape is this rough draught of man: this rude sketch. . . ." Indeed Wesley had written A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy. But he did not altogether desert superstition for science: among the 725 prescriptions for 243 diseases listed in his Primitive Physick: or, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fleeing From The Wrath | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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