Word: assemblyman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...practice of avoiding doubleheaders by scheduling morning and afternoon games instead (and incidentally collecting two admissions) is an Ebbets Field custom that has long irked Brooklyn fans. With a grand chance to win his constituents' esteem, Brooklyn Assemblyman Lawrence P. Murphy, a Democrat, introduced a bill in the New York State legislature last winter to prohibit such splitting of doubleheaders. Amid outraged cries from the Dodger front office ("An improper exercise of police power"), the bill passed both houses. Then it went to Governor Dewey for signature...
...French came back stridently. Their High Commissioner for Germany, Andre François-Poncet, demanded a retraction of Dehler's tirade. In Paris, a national assemblyman howled: "There is no difference between the Bonn government and the Nazis. German methods and mentality are always the same...
Last week, 64 years after he arrived in the U.S. from his native Germany and 44 years after he undertook his first public office (as a New York State assemblyman), 72 year-old Senator Robert F. Wagner said his farewell to politics. The famed old liberal, long disabled by the infirmities of age, wrote: "My turn has come to step down ... I have had my fair share of shining hours when the country approved my labors and when I saw the reforms for which I struggled so firmly established that many took them for granted...
...Jimmy married his sweetheart, Janet ("Allie") Allen, to a medley of "Here Comes the Bride" and Witt You Love Me in December? All his life a 10 o'clock scholar, Jimmy was more than two hours late for the wedding. Two years later, after having served as an assemblyman, Walker was elected to the state senate, and later became the senate's Democratic leader...
...saying he wouldn't dream of interfering in the 20th. After all, he was a Brooklyn Democrat himself, he observed carefully. Then he sent his secretary to "Irish Night" at the Peter J. Dooling (Tammany) Association to announce that the mayor also recognized the claim of Assemblyman Owen McGivern to the nomination. Tammany Boss Rogers hoped that Republican Governor Tom Dewey would mercifully spare him a special election, leave the seat open until November and give him time to work something...