Word: westfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee could later make substitutions for the November election. This political trick left Democratic voters cold. Instead they formed an "all-Yankee" ticket by nominating for the Senate Marcus Aurelius Coolidge, onetime mayor of Fitchburg, manufacturer of machinery, banker, no kin to Calvin Coolidge, and Joseph B. Ely of Westfield for the governorship. The spectacle of a Wet Coolidge running against a Dry Butler in November piqued state interest. Nominee Coolidge, delighted, celebrated his victory by taking his family to Newport to see another Irishman lose another race...
...abandon his Philadelphia dental practice and pull the teeth of the grape. High points in his career were: member, Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church; delegate, General Conference of M. E. Church (four times); trustee, Chautauqua Institution of Chautauqua, N. Y.; president, town of Westfield. N. Y. (six times); Prohibition Candidate for Governor of New York in 1916. Even Dr. Welch's beverage seems to share his antipathy to alcohol: unlike such soft drinks as ginger ale and mineral water, grape juice does not combine well with alcoholic liquors...