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...startling allegation. "Arms and ammunition," charged National Assemblyman Thomas Malinda, "are continuously being smuggled from Communist and other foreign countries into Kenya for the purpose of staging an armed revolution to overthrow our beloved government." The charge brought a quick denial from Security Minister Njoroge Mungai, who admitted, however, that "many people have been trained in the armed forces of other countries and the first we know about it is when they get back...
Wagner simply wanted Senator Joseph Zaretzki and Assemblyman Anthony Travia, both of whom had served as legislative leaders when the Democrats were in the minority, to move up in well-organized succession to the majority-leadership posts. The Kennedy coalition wanted to move...
...suite of Albany's DeWitt Clinton Hotel. Present besides McKeon were Nassau County Leader John English; Schenectady County Leader George Palmer; Joseph Crangle, subbing for Erie County Boss Peter J. Crotty; J. Raymond Jones, Negro chief of New York City's Tammany Hall; Queen's County Assemblyman Moses Weinstein, and New York City Election Commissioner Maurice J. O'Rourke...
While the investigation proceeded, the state legislature remained out of action, going through the motions of voting on candidates for the leadership. Taunted Republican Assemblyman George Ingalls: "All this is but a maneuvering of puppets. A little man comes out and blows his horn. Nobody listens. A little while later another little man comes out and blows his horn. Nobody listens, so he goes back in. Why don't you straighten out your political strings so some little man can come out and blow his horn and stay here...
...speaker of the state assembly. Wagner backed a couple of proven mediocrities, while a coalition headed by Buckley decided to push two other candidates who were hardly less mediocre but both good Buckley men-State Senator Julian B. Erway, 65, a conservative Albany lawyer and cattle breeder, and Assemblyman Stanley Steingut, 44, Brooklyn's influential anti-Wagner Democratic leader...