Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic City, 817 votes for State Assemblyman were recorded for William H. West, running as an "Independent Republican." William H. West is an inmate of the Atlantic County Mental Hospital, where he was confined several weeks ago when G-men discovered that he had been writing letters to Franklin Delano Roosevelt saying that he had brought about his nomination in 1932 by means of "thought waves," would turn his thought waves in other directions unless he was properly rewarded...
...Said Assemblyman Francisco Lavides: "Frankly, McNutt is an enigma...
After this lavish concern for sick rooms, the legislators projected their imaginations into delivery rooms and heeded an exhortation of Assemblyman Emerson David Fite, 63, professor of political science in Yassar College, a Republican neighbor of President Roosevelt in Dutchess County, a believer in "government by cooperation," father of two young women. Professor Fite wants every woman in New York State, rich or poor, married or not, to receive $75 for the birth of a child provided that: 1) she registers for the bonus before the fourth month of her pregnancy, 2) submits to pre-natal care, 3) pays...
...joint resolution called for repeal of that portion of Nevada's Constitution which prohibits lotteries. When young Assemblyman J. E. Sweatt of Washoe County arose to argue against it, the measure's friends called him a "long beard." When he returned to the attack wearing false whiskers (see cut), they silenced him by voting to have any legislator with a beard of more than six inches taken out by the sergeant-at-arms and shaved...
...behind last week's horseplay was a perfectly serious and, for the U. S., unique project sponsored by Senator William Marsh of Tonopah and Assemblyman Pat Cline of Las Vegas. If Nevada's Constitution is amended, they will introduce legislation to create a state lottery monopoly, to produce a million dollars a month for division between the State and lucky ticket holders. The State's share will, its sponsors promise, permit abolition of all State taxes...