Word: assemblywoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Last week Assemblywoman Jane H. Todd introduced in both houses of the Legislature a bill designed to correct these shortcomings, to require all nurses to have some sort of license according to their training, skill and experience. Backed by many interested professionals and public-spirited citizens, and by the New York State Nurses Association, the Todd campaign got under way to a fanfare of agitation about "bootleg nurses." As horrible examples, the campaign literature cited: 1) a nurse who tried to feed a chop, two vegetables and a piece of pie to a child with a temperature...
...Rogers-Simultaneously, Contractor Will Oscar Rogers filed intention to run for the same nomination, use the same name. Declared Contractor Will Oscar: "I reckon I got as much right to be Will Rogers as this other feller." Golfer Maureen Orcutt, unopposed, was nominated Democratic candidate for New Jersey State Assemblywoman. Said Nominee Orcutt: "I'm not going to let politics interfere with my golf...