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...Last Week Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein of the Institutional Synagogue in Manhattan, broadcasting his sermon, declared that this "religious persecution" must cease. "I call upon the Legislature of the State of New York to pass the Hofstadter-Moffat Sabbath bill!" he cried. Sponsored by Senator Samuel H. Hofstadter and Assemblyman Abbot Low Moffat, the bill would enable seventh-day observers to engage in business on "the first day of the week." Thus all would be equal in the sight of God and the State...
...product. But the companies which subterraneously produce smut and near-smut, as a regular business, stand on a very different footing from the reputable bookseller who incidentally procures for a client a copy of a book for which he asks. It was because of this evident difference that Assemblyman Langdon Post last year introduced into the New York State Legislature a bill absolving booksellers from prosecution if they would divulge the source of the illicit product; and while Mr. Post's bill may have had flaws of detail, the proposal is sure, and properly so, in one form or another...
Phelps Phelps, onetime N Y State Assemblyman: "Art is the perfection of expression...
...Said Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier: "The time has come for the State of New York to step in and prevent future cruelty to animals by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Accordingly, I have introduced a bill in the Legislature keeping this society from collecting all the dogs' licenses, fines and pensions...
...consultant and lecturer (Columbia University) on theatrical business problems. Now, in proof of his economic prowess, he has furnished his new offices with one month's interest from the capital collected for Bela Blau, Inc. Members of his board of directors in clude Langdon Post, New York State Assemblyman, onetime cinema critic (New York Evening World), sponsor of a bill to protect actors against the humiliation of arrest for appearance in plays adjudged immoral; Josephine Forrestal, experienced play reader; Manhattan Bankers Alonzo Potter, William V. Griffin, Duncan Spencer; Henry Codman Potter, onetime assistant stage manager with the Theatre Guild...