Word: assemblymen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred motor-driven vehicles on the Islands, none for private use.) The application was received with "ribaldry." and the Governor retired to his tent with a severe case of the haughties. Last week when the Speaker informed the Assembly of the Governor's still purple condition, the ribald Assemblymen sent their soothing respects...
...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...
...Tammany will fight on. As Thurman Arnold points out: "Institutions once formed have the persistence of all living things. ... Even when their utility both to the public and their own members has disappeared, they still survive." Tammany still bivouacs some of its cohorts in state departments; it still elects Assemblymen, State Senators, and Congressmen; it still makes judges. It will not obey any orders to disband. It will not be destroyed until it is beaten by another Democratic organization that combines the patronage, prestige, and mass support of the New Deal with the morale and organizational strength formerly possessed...
...being less headlong, throwing its weight strategically behind candidates already in the field in preference to putting up its own. Last week this policy was emphasized by A. L. P. bigwigs convening at the Claridge to lay plans for the future. This year A. L. P.'s new assemblymen will be expected to plump for a fairly well defined platform including: 1) ratification of the child labor amendment, 2) a "little" Wagner-Steagall housing bill for New York, 3) reducing the old age pension limit to 60, 4) municipal power plants as a yardstick for rates, 5) regulation...
What the Assembly Investigating Committee of five Democrats (Republican Assemblymen refused to serve on the committee) now hopes to pin on Mayor Bradway has to do with payrolls, vouchers, and regular expenses of city departments since 1932. The Committee thinks that Mayor Bradway permitted many of these vouchers to be improperly issued. Said she last week: "I'm not going to resign unless they get as many signers as voted for me last May. ... I want to do what's best for the greatest little city in the world...