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...rolling baritone of Camillien Houde, talking or singing, is a big thing in Montreal. It made a bombastic, short, 200-lb. French-Canadian a Quebec Province assemblyman at 33, mayor of Montreal at 39. But, like the frog that tried to blow himself up into a bull, Camillien Houde burst himself when he tried to become Premier of the Province three years ago. After foxy old Premier Taschereau had unmercifully beaten him, he could not even get himself re-elected mayor of his own Montreal. He lost his leadership of Quebec's Opposition Party, the Conservatives, and last year...
...inspect the tenements and help launch a prospective Housing Authority, a progressive Harvard graduate and one-time Assemblyman: Langdon W. Post, son-in-law of Rollin Kirby whose slashing cartoons in the World-Telegram helped throw the Tammany Tiger into the ashcan...
TIME regrets misreporting Sleuth Haight's activities. What he did say, to Assemblyman James W. Higgins of Wisconsin, was that, while in the R.O.T.C. in Chicago, he had been "picked out" with some other young men to sleuth Reds, report on them to the Secret Service. At Wisconsin he had continued this vigilance. He would gladly furnish Wisconsin's legislators with his data. His offer was accepted.-ED. Thick-Covered Ball...
Last week Assemblyman Higgins and two colleagues opened hearings in a packed Senate parlor. They compared scholarship grants before and during President Frank's tenure. Students and townspeople offered a welter of rumors and opinions, few facts...
...climax Assemblyman Higgins' indignation, he had discovered that some of the young witnesses were out-state students attending the University on legislative scholarships. Charging that most of these out-of-state scholarships went to "Communists and Eastern radicals," he put through the Assembly a resolution for an investigation into the whole question of university "Communism and atheism...