Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comrades obliged. They organized the Ridgway riots (TIME, June 9), called a general strike of 2,000,000 Red-led workers. Both were disastrous flops. National Assemblyman Jacques Duclos, France's No. 1 Communist, was tossed into jail by Prime Minister Pinay's cops, and stays there; this audacious move so startled his lieutenants that not one of them in the National Assembly has risen to invoke parliamentary immunity for Duclos. The comrades were confused: they hardly knew whether to proclaim Duclos' martyrdom or denounce him for stupidity...
...Pusan courtroom, nine of Rhee's army officers put Assemblyman Suh Min Ho on trial, accused him of murdering a South Korean army captain. Suh's lawyer told the court-martial that his client had shot in self-defense and had been acquitted by the Assembly. Suh is not very popular with South Korean army brass since he brought to light a half-million-dollar embezzlement scandal in Rhee's army...
Here & there, in the thick of the battle, police glimpsed a huge, black Hotchkiss sedan with an outsize radio aerial. At 10 p.m. they stopped the car and ordered out its occupants. They turned out to be National Assemblyman Jacques Duclos, 56, a pudgy onetime pastry chef who is now acting chief of the French Communist Party (while Chief Maurice Thorez convalesces on the Black Sea), his wife Gilberte, a burly bodyguard, a chauffeur-and two dead pigeons. Police believed the birds were homing pigeons hastily killed. Mme. Duclos insisted that they were the gift of a friend-for stewing...
Vicious Pattern. Slender, studious Judge Streit was never much of an athlete himself, but as a five-term assemblyman and a judge for 14 of his 54 years, he knew just where to dig around in the shabby woodwork. Block by block he built up a ringing, 41-page indictment of big-time intercollegiate athletics. Said he: "The exposure before me is only the lifting of the curtain for a small glimpse of intercollegiate football and basketball, fired by commercialism and determination to win at all costs...
Defeat & Death. While his paper prospered, his own political star rose. He served as a state assemblyman and lieutenant governor, helped start the Republican Party by writing one of its first statements of principles. Lincoln came to rely on him so much that Raymond managed his 1864 re-election campaign. Lincoln called him "my lieutenant general," and backed Raymond's own successful campaign for Congress...