SENATE PRESIDENT
JAZZ BAND LEADER ENTERS POLITICS AS A JOKE. A leader of a jazz band will preside at the Washington State Senate when it convenes in January. He is Victor Aloysius Meyers, who has a pin-point moustache, breezy manner, and a decidedly unconventional method of electioneering. Victor entered politics "for a joke," and has been surprised to find himself elected lieutenant-governor of his State. > "Now," he states, " am ready for all social duties th'e govenor will not be ahle to perform. Just wait and see me snap into monumtent unveiling and corner-stone laying." Meyers has made only one previous appearance in politics, when he unsuccessfully stood as mayor of Seattle last spring, and campaigned on the platform for chorus girls on tramcars, silk bats for traffie policemen, and a service of cracked ice on allnight cars. Meyers confined his last compaign to two or three radio addresses, but he has swept into office with the Demoeratic landslide.^ "There won'tbe any horseplay when I take charge in the Senate," Meyers promised. "I am spending half my time studying rules and order."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 434, 19 January 1933, Page 2
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181SENATE PRESIDENT Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 434, 19 January 1933, Page 2
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