Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father's poker club, went to night classes at San Francisco Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1927. But his real interest, then and now, was in being liked, in being a leader-and a political career was inevitable. He ran as a Republican for assemblyman in 1928, but the G.O.P. competition was stiff in San Francisco, and Pat lost in the party primary. When he next ran for public office-in New Deal 1939-he was a Democrat. "I've never regretted the change," he tells his friends. "I'm not entirely satisfied...
...name actors ad-lib happily without riches, become convinced of the "truth" that they are relating. Last week Betsy von Furstenberg was on trial for shooting her "husband" on the pretext that she mistook him for a prowler. The prosecuting attorney, in real life Manhattan's Seventh District Assemblyman Daniel Kelly, had built up a damaging case against her. "It all looks very black for us, but wait until I take the stand!" she cried. Verdict's lawyers get just as engaged, lose their tempers in "court," on one occasion nearly came to blows afterward. Said Betsy...
...Joseph O'Grady, a member of the Transit Authority, said, "I haven't given a thought to whether it is immoral or not." Mr. O'Grady made the statement after Assemblyman Monteleone called "bugging" legal but immoral. Mayor Wagner said that he was none too pleased, either...
...police in the interests of tranquillity on the subways. The Transit Authority claimed that it wouldn't have dreamed of using the material thus gathered in strike-breaking or anti-union pursuits. But legal or illegal, the behavior of the Transit Authority in this matter can only be condemned. Assemblyman Savarese, who started the investigation, probably hit the nail on the head when he called it "loathsome," "shoddy," "disgraceful," and "a dirty business...
...thirds quorum for a no-confidence vote. Every time the opposition majority tried to vote him out, Senaga's twelve assemblymen simply walked out of the meeting. When the opposition tried physically to prevent Senaga's men from leaving, they took to the windows; one Senaga assemblyman once left his trousers behind in the tight clutch of an anti-Senaga assemblyman who had tried to stop...