Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consultant and lecturer (Columbia University) on theatrical business problems. Now, in proof of his economic prowess, he has furnished his new offices with one month's interest from the capital collected for Bela Blau, Inc. Members of his board of directors in clude Langdon Post, New York State Assemblyman, onetime cinema critic (New York Evening World), sponsor of a bill to protect actors against the humiliation of arrest for appearance in plays adjudged immoral; Josephine Forrestal, experienced play reader; Manhattan Bankers Alonzo Potter, William V. Griffin, Duncan Spencer; Henry Codman Potter, onetime assistant stage manager with the Theatre Guild...
...come through the rough-and-tumble of big-city politics. Even Manhattan's "silk stocking" district has its seamy side. Mrs. Pratt encountered Tammany methods within her own party before securing her nomination. A somewhat amateurish city alderman, she was opposed for nomination by a highly professional State Assemblyman, Phelps Phelps. Her primary victory seemed due to her astute counsellors more than to her social appeal. The seat in Congress which she sought was held by one Tammanyite and defended by another, both Jews. A woman Socialist, Bertha Mailly, also ran. Mrs. Pratt was expected to win because "Broadway...
...Calvin Coolidge was an inconspicuous Assemblyman in Massachusetts. Alfred E. Smith was the same thing in New York. Herbert Clark Hoover had branched out independently in engineering and in 1907-08 visited England, Egypt, Burma, Australia, New Zealand, Malay, Ceylon...
...announced that the endorsement statement and a leaflet attacking Nominee Smith's record as a New York Assemblyman would be distributed in some 30,000 churches...
...Phelps is put first because he is a New York Assemblyman and thereby the political senior of Mrs. Pratt, who is only a New York City Alderman (albeit the first New York woman alderman in history). He is also put first because he drew top place on the ballot, after performing a "luck rite." Just before the drawing, he rushed out of the Board of Elections office and touched a Negro on the shoulder...