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Political Career: Campaigned for Harding at 12, headed a local finance committee in the Coolidge campaign at 16, elected to the Republican State Central Committee at 22, became California's youngest assemblyman at 24, its youngest state senator at 26, the youngest Republican National Committeeman at 30, and, at 33, the Republican National Committee's youngest Executive Committee chairman ever. In 1945, Governor Earl Warren, who got his political start from old Joe Knowland, appointed Joe's son Billy to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Hiram Johnson. The news first reached Major Knowland...
...Manhattan's County Courthouse in Foley Square, a committee headed by New York State Senator Bernard Tompkins and Assemblyman Samuel Rabin listened in stunned silence as a parade of witnesses, many of them very reluctant, unfolded a sordid tale of profit in the name of charity. Items...
...sixteen years. Halley flashed to eminence in the Kefauver hearings. Wagner has built his reputation brick by brick. Halley has held one office, President of the City Council, in which he voted on crucial issues with a fickleness that raises doubts as to his sincerity. Wagner has been State Assemblyman, head of the New York Planning Commission, chief of the Housing Commission and Manhattan Borough President, administering each office in a capable, if plodding manner. As long as capability is preferred to color, sincerity to slick public relations, and achievements of the past to promises of a bright future, Robert...
...Robinson, 46, a popular Presbyterian pastor whose round-the-world trip in 1951 as a missionary ambassador at large (TIME, April 28, 1952) had a highly effective, if unofficial, propaganda value for the U.S. This left the Tammany Democrats out on a limb with a non-Negro candidate. Assemblyman Herman Katz of Manhattan. After some hurried conferences, Katz withdrew...
...Calvados. When Joseph Laniel rose in the tribunal of the National Assembly last week to make his bid to become Premier of France, he brought to that jaded assembly something of the freshness of the Normandy apple country he represents. A friendly, ruddy-faced man of 63, barrel-chested Assemblyman Laniel offered a "maybe-yes maybe-no" program with all the tight-fisted caution of a Norman farmer. After 36 days of bitter inter-party feuding, the fact that Joseph Laniel was relatively unknown (i.e., lacked enemies) made him an acceptable Premier. Nobody questioned him hard. The Assembly cheered...