Word: davey
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Sides. But it was going to take more than presidential boards to stop 74-year-old Davey Robertson. As wheels stopped moving on the four struck roads, ticket agents sweated out the chaotic task of rerouting stranded passengers over other routes. Buses and airlines were clogged with suddenly shifted loads. Freight piled up in yards, railroad towns took on a Sunday quiet. In Altoona, Pa., at the base of the Pennsylvania's climb over the Alleghenies, almost two-thirds of the town's workers were idle...
Time for Politics. Charles Sawyer, busy making money, nevertheless had not forgotten politics. In 1930 he was defeated for Congress. In 1932 he was elected lieutenant governor, and two years later he filed for the governorship, but he was licked in the primaries by Tree Surgeon Martin L. Davey, a college friend. In 1938 he beat Davey in a bitter primary campaign, but lost to Republican John Bricker...