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Determined partisans can always be counted on to read national significance into the most insignificant of local elections. Because New York is the home State of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his political generalissimo. James A. Farley, its election of Assemblymen last week provided such partisans with a bare bone for gnawing. The President's part was to sit at Hyde Park and serve in silence as a rabbit's foot to bring luck to Democratic candidates. The part of the Postmaster General was to serve, in anything but silence, as the donkey's head. As chairman...
...jobs to Negroes. In the district are one Negro police lieutenant, a Negro acting school superintendent, a Negro tax commissioner, two Negro judges, a Negro Civil Service commissioner, two Negro district attorneys. But in elective offices, Harlem has scant representation: two members of the Board of Aldermen, two State Assemblymen. Holding a balance of power last week, Harlem's two Assemblymen managed to defeat Governor Lehman's New York State reapportionment bill which would have given Harlem one more Assemblyman but no State Senator or U. S. Representative...
...amended to meet minor criticisms and last week, putting all his influence behind it again, had it brought up in the State Legislature. In the Lower House the bill failed, by 15 votes, to receive the necessary two-thirds majority, thanks to the "Noes" of 29 Democratic Assemblymen elected on the Farley-Flynn ticket...
...minimum spending. Senator Dryden Kuser, the measure's sponsor, hurried across to the Assembly chamber to speed it through. The legislative wags put a cup of ice water in his chair, tossed an exploding firecracker at his feet. As he backed toward the door escorted by two Assemblymen who playfully tickled his ribs, a chair was hurled at him. It missed its mark, went clattering to the corridor floor. Then and then only was the Assembly ready to pass Senator Kuser's bill...
Because Geneva hoped and believed that Washington will back up the League, Assemblymen looked askance at Chatter Gibson. Unruffled, he strode to a group of seats just outside the Assembly's pale on which sat assorted U. S. and Russian diplomats, the latter headed by Soviet Minister to Finland Boris Stein. No Foreign Minister of a Great Power was present except France's debonair Mâitre Paul-Boncour. Few Assemblymen even wore frock coats. This was to be a little fellows' day, although Britain, France, Germany and Italy stood ready to back up at last...