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...joint resolution called for repeal of that portion of Nevada's Constitution which prohibits lotteries. When young Assemblyman J. E. Sweatt of Washoe County arose to argue against it, the measure's friends called him a "long beard." When he returned to the attack wearing false whiskers (see cut), they silenced him by voting to have any legislator with a beard of more than six inches taken out by the sergeant-at-arms and shaved...
...behind last week's horseplay was a perfectly serious and, for the U. S., unique project sponsored by Senator William Marsh of Tonopah and Assemblyman Pat Cline of Las Vegas. If Nevada's Constitution is amended, they will introduce legislation to create a state lottery monopoly, to produce a million dollars a month for division between the State and lucky ticket holders. The State's share will, its sponsors promise, permit abolition of all State taxes...
...straight Democratic ticket!" Well, he won't have that line this year, but the photographers can not fail to come through. At his side will be Mrs. Smith, wearing a corsage of orchids. She's had those same orchids every election day since her husband was state assemblyman; they must be wax. And who ever heard of Mrs. Smith at any time during the year but election day? She's probably blown up for the occasion, like the dragons in Macy's Thanksgiving parade...
...morning, with the obliging permission of the State House custodian, the demonstrators moved their blankets and belongings over to the Senate chamber so that the Assembly room could be used for Civil Service examinations. Later they moved back. A onetime Assemblyman named Theron McCampbell, now an independent candidate for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator, appeared uninvited on the rostrum...
...automobile, jammed State House corridors and the streets outside. From the Assembly floor to the galleries docilely retired all the demonstrators save five led by Ray Cooke. Authorized to state their case, Leader Cooke was promptly shushed when he cried, "I say he's a liar," at an Assemblyman who had charged the demonstrators with being "professional agitators...