Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME regrets misreporting Sleuth Haight's activities. What he did say, to Assemblyman James W. Higgins of Wisconsin, was that, while in the R.O.T.C. in Chicago, he had been "picked out" with some other young men to sleuth Reds, report on them to the Secret Service. At Wisconsin he had continued this vigilance. He would gladly furnish Wisconsin's legislators with his data. His offer was accepted.-ED. Thick-Covered Ball...
Last week Assemblyman Higgins and two colleagues opened hearings in a packed Senate parlor. They compared scholarship grants before and during President Frank's tenure. Students and townspeople offered a welter of rumors and opinions, few facts...
...climax Assemblyman Higgins' indignation, he had discovered that some of the young witnesses were out-state students attending the University on legislative scholarships. Charging that most of these out-of-state scholarships went to "Communists and Eastern radicals," he put through the Assembly a resolution for an investigation into the whole question of university "Communism and atheism...
...proposal for compulsory military training sent a handful of students scurrying to the Capitol to swear they would never bear arms for their country. Their demonstration incensed Assemblyman James H. Higgins, a Milwaukee dry cleaner, who spluttered: "I was never so insulted in all my life. Eighteen-and 20-year-old kids throwing abuse at World War veterans! . . . Their views suggested that they were believers of Communism, Bolshevism and atheism...
...mutuel betting. "Oral" bets (i. e., bets handled by bookmakers), where most racetracks are run at a loss, are estimated at $68,000,000 a year. To legalize pari-mutuel betting in New York would require an amendment to the State constitution, a referendum in 1935. To avoid delay, Assemblyman William Breitenbach was last week urging passage of a bill simply to rescind the penalties for pari-mutuel betting, to let it start up at once...