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...Jersey's Assemblymen were puzzled by a bill introduced last month permitting use of the bow & arrow in hunting brant, gallinules, coots, dowitchers, turn-stones, godwits, tattlers, certain other more common game birds and animals. Blind, rosy-cheeked Assemblyman Thomas M. Muir of Plainfield asked Assemblywoman Constance W. Hand, sponsor of the bill: "What is a godwit?" Mrs. Hand: "I'm sure I don't know what godwits are." Assembly Speaker Herbert J. Pascoe, from the chair: "They come from North Plainfield." Assemblymen looked the godwit up, found it is a long-legged, long-billed wading bird...
...Progressive young Governor Philip Fox La Follette last year tried a new way of getting after his State's privately owned utility companies. Since Wisconsin's Constitution prevented the State from launching publicly owned utilities, ingenious Phil La Follette got four of his associates headed by Republican Assemblyman Charles Perry to charter a private corporation named Wisconsin Development Authority. Ostensible purpose of WDA, for which the La Follette-controlled legislature authorized annual grants, was to engage in "promotional and educational" work to foster municipal ownership and rural electrification. To frightened Wisconsin utility men, however, the loosely drawn charter...
...Atlantic City, 817 votes for State Assemblyman were recorded for William H. West, running as an "Independent Republican." William H. West is an inmate of the Atlantic County Mental Hospital, where he was confined several weeks ago when G-men discovered that he had been writing letters to Franklin Delano Roosevelt saying that he had brought about his nomination in 1932 by means of "thought waves," would turn his thought waves in other directions unless he was properly rewarded...
...Said Assemblyman Francisco Lavides: "Frankly, McNutt is an enigma...
After this lavish concern for sick rooms, the legislators projected their imaginations into delivery rooms and heeded an exhortation of Assemblyman Emerson David Fite, 63, professor of political science in Yassar College, a Republican neighbor of President Roosevelt in Dutchess County, a believer in "government by cooperation," father of two young women. Professor Fite wants every woman in New York State, rich or poor, married or not, to receive $75 for the birth of a child provided that: 1) she registers for the bonus before the fourth month of her pregnancy, 2) submits to pre-natal care, 3) pays...