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...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...
...Wisconsin, Governor Philip La Follette, fighting to win outright majority in the State Legislature for his Progressive Party, succeeded in electing 16 out of 33 State Senators, 47 out of 100 State Assemblymen...
...women & children were encamped in the Assembly chamber. Bread and meat were brought in, and sandwiches were made on the clerk's desk. A coffee urn was set up under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. John Spain Jr., Workers' Alliance organizer, took the chair as "Speaker." "Assemblymen" made speeches demanding relief...
...children from romping too noisily around the Speaker's desk during speeches. A delegation had a friendly interview with Governor Hoffman, demanded the immediate reconvening of the Legislature. The Governor asked the Legislature to do so. The Assembly leaders agreed, then lost their nerve. Instead, a handful of Assemblymen and Senators gathered informally at Newark for a club conference...