Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill. All California's frantic energies were concentrated on getting Governor Frank Merriam to sign or to veto. A hundred chain store men, 900 independents, with bands, banners, slogans marched on Sacramento, packed the Assembly chamber, booed and shouted when the Governor held public hearings. Progressive Republican Assemblyman Melvyn Cronin demanded acceptance of the bill to stop the centralization of wealth, prevent the destruction of independents, save the State from wage slavery, keep open for posterity the road of opportunity. John Francis Neylan, Hearst lawyer, trumpeted the counterblast: confiscation, a 10% boost in food prices for those least able...
...comforting to feel that the future of the country is in the hands of such eminently sound men as the gentlemen of the New York Assembly. After all, nothing can be radically wrong in a world from which nudism has been banished. Assemblyman Heck, however, who said in reference to the Tennessee evolution law: "As a result of that, Tennessee earned the name of 'monkey state.' New York is liable to get a beautiful name of the same nature if we enact this bill into law," exaggerates, moved by pardonable pride in his own commonwealth. Many other legislatures will pass...
...elective offices, Harlem has scant representation: two members of the Board of Aldermen, two State Assemblymen. Holding a balance of power last week, Harlem's two Assemblymen managed to defeat Governor Lehman's New York State reapportionment bill which would have given Harlem one more Assemblyman but no State Senator or U. S. Representative...
...rolling baritone of Camillien Houde, talking or singing, is a big thing in Montreal. It made a bombastic, short, 200-lb. French-Canadian a Quebec Province assemblyman at 33, mayor of Montreal at 39. But, like the frog that tried to blow himself up into a bull, Camillien Houde burst himself when he tried to become Premier of the Province three years ago. After foxy old Premier Taschereau had unmercifully beaten him, he could not even get himself re-elected mayor of his own Montreal. He lost his leadership of Quebec's Opposition Party, the Conservatives, and last year...
...inspect the tenements and help launch a prospective Housing Authority, a progressive Harvard graduate and one-time Assemblyman: Langdon W. Post, son-in-law of Rollin Kirby whose slashing cartoons in the World-Telegram helped throw the Tammany Tiger into the ashcan...