Word: assemblyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Tiger Song's nearly completed purge ran into unexpected opposition. Assemblyman Um Sang Sup, a member of the opposition Democratic Party, charged that Song's ruthless methods had prompted 153 officers to commit suicide rather than face courts-martial. Some, said Um, had actually taken their lives "while being questioned." The chief of staff disputed the suicide figures, but his own statistics of accomplishment were stern enough. For grafting on the job, he had fired, in the past nine months, six major generals, nine brigadiers and 1,683 other officers of field and company grade, including...
Catching On. In Visalia, Calif., riding in an open convertible during a parade, State Assemblyman Myron Frew graciously waved back at the crowd, finally realized that the wild shouts were not cheers, barely hopped out of his burning car in time...
...relationship protected by law in twelve states. Last week, "greatly disturbed" because New York State does not grant its working newsmen this legal safeguard, New York State Assemblyman Edwyn E. Mason proposed a bill that would make reporters immune from prosecution for concealing their sources...
...Deputy. In 1956 Youlou was elected mayor of Brazzaville (pop. 100,000) in a landslide. By the time Charles de Gaulle visited Brazzaville last summer, the abbé was able to greet the general three different times in reception lines, by appearing in his three different capacities-as mayor, assemblyman and Minister of Agriculture...
There beside the whisper of the surf, Oopa, who was once a fried-potato vendor and then a carpenter, roared like a Paris Assemblyman. Under the slogan, "Tahiti for the Tahitians; Frenchmen into the sea!", Oopa's Democratic Rally of the Tahitian People swept last year's elections, and Oopa, 63, became Premier of Polynesia. Oopa accused the French of allowing the islands' copra-and-phosphate economy to stagnate in the face of a population explosion that has doubled the population (to 70,000) in 25 years. Hoping to win greater control over an economy dominated...