Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tired of concocting, weasling. Nominee Smith suddenly turned on the famed chefs, told them to eat their own mud pie. He issued a lengthy statement. He explained his every vote as a New York Assemblyman on bills connected with prostitution, gambling, the saloon. He said...
...York Evening Post (Republican) anticipated him. It, too, had exhumed the record.. While awaiting Nominee Smith's reply to the subtlest, heaviest attack he had yet suffered in his greatest campaign, voters had an opportunity to scrutinize the subject-matter of the controversy. Sample items of Assemblyman Smith's record of votes (1903-15) are as follows: Liquor A vote (1904) to except hotels from the provisions of a local option bill. A vote (1905) to except New York City from the places affected by a bill giving local option to districts where 40% of the voters...
...Votes (1907, 1910, 1911, 1915) to legalize Sunday baseball. A vote (1909) against Sunday theatre performances. A vote (1910) in favor of letting Jews keep their stores open on Sunday. When Editor White said that Assemblyman Smith had voted for "The Scarlet Woman of Babylon," he was stretching a point. But he had some basis of fact to go on. There used to be a fine distinction between hotels and saloons. Half-saloon, half-hotel were the assignation houses which evaded the intent of an act known as the Raines law, by renting regularly a specified number of bedrooms...
...round, placid, motherly lady who was Katie Dunn of the Bronx, then Mrs. Smith of Oliver Street, then the wife of Assemblyman Smith, then a four-time Governor's wife and finally a candidate for First Lady of the Land, emerged from her husband's friend's private car and smiled contentedly at Houston. Newsgatherers waiting at her hotel were soon handed a mimeographed statement by the lady's experienced secretary, Miss Rose Pedrick...
Louis Waldman, onetime Assemblyman of New York, rose and nominated Norman Thomas to be Socialist candidate for the Presidency of the U. S. Cameron King of California cried his swift second to the nomination. The Convention shouted, cheered, applauded. Some, throaty with emotion, sang the Internationale. Six minutes passed. Candidate Thomas, in accepting the nomination, said that James H. Maurer ought to have been the party's candidate...