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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...
Some of the summer changes are more for business than for pleasure. California Assemblyman Carley V. Porter, who hasn't taken a vacation for ten years, recently changed his address from Compton to Sacramento, where he attends an active session of the state legislature. Recently, longtime (about 14 years) cover-to-cover Reader Porter said: "For the busy man there is no substitute for TIME...
Meeting in a bedraggled movie theater in Pusan, the Assembly last week heard specific charges: the corps had carried some 70,000 "ghost" recruits on its rolls, had bought 8,000 tons of rice for nonexistent troops. Merchants, charged one Assemblyman, had been forced to hand over blank receipts for corps purchases, which "presumably were padded to suit the appetite of all concerned . . . They purchased 4,000 bales of dried fish, of which only 1,000 bales have been located...
Rhetorical Question. In Riverside, Calif., the Daily Press announced that Assemblyman John Babbage would speak at the local Rotary Club on: "What Can We Do About Texas...
...TIME'S thanks to Assemblyman Oliffe for correcting a proofreader's glaring transposition. Of the ten regents who voted to withhold the license of The Miracle, two were Catholics, six were Protestants, and two were Jews...