Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After that nothing but approving votes were heard until Siam's Assemblyman softly murmured "Abstain."* Other abstainees who either sent no Assemblyman or simply did not vote totaled 13: Abyssinia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Honduras, Irak, Liberia, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador. Gravely President Hymans read out the final count: 42 to 1-hailed in Geneva as "The World against Japan!" Ruling that the Committee of 19's recommendations had been adopted "unanimously,"* Mr. Hymans called Japan a land "which seems desirous of retiring into isolation and carrying on its policy without taking into account the opinion...
...Wisconsin. Paul John Kvale, 36, who studied at the University of Chicago, Luther College and the University of Minnesota, succeeded his father as U. S. Representative from Minnesota. James Jeremiah ("Jerry") Wadsworth, 26, Yale 1927, son of the ex-Senator from New York, is now a New York Assemblyman. A candidate for the New York State Senate in 1930 was Alexander Hamilton, then 27, Harvard 1925, nephew of John Pierpont Morgan, great-great-grandson of the first Secretary of the Treasury. Frederic Rene Coudert Jr., 34, Columbia 1918, onetime assistant U. S. Attorney, ran for New York District Attorney...
...Through his business associate, Patrick Sullivan, Mr. Gerard last year presented a bill to make it necessary for a broker to obtain the written consent of an owner of stock before it can be loaned to shorts. The bill was shelved but will be aggressively revived this session by Assemblyman Sullivan, nephew of the Timothy Sullivan who sponsored New York's famed Sullivan Act against concealed weapons...
...Last Week Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogue in Manhattan, broadcasting his sermon, declared that this "religious persecution" must cease. "I call upon the Legislature of the State of New York to pass the Hofstadter-Moffat Sabbath bill!" he cried. Sponsored by Senator Samuel H. Hofstadter and Assemblyman Abbot Low Moffat, the bill would enable seventh-day observers to engage in business on "the first day of the week." Thus all would be equal in the sight of God and the State...
...product. But the companies which subterraneously produce smut and near-smut, as a regular business, stand on a very different footing from the reputable bookseller who incidentally procures for a client a copy of a book for which he asks. It was because of this evident difference that Assemblyman Langdon Post last year introduced into the New York State Legislature a bill absolving booksellers from prosecution if they would divulge the source of the illicit product; and while Mr. Post's bill may have had flaws of detail, the proposal is sure, and properly so, in one form or another...