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...whose beauty the bloom has not been rubbed by years of scrubbing tenement hallways) to marry long-suffering Ser geant McShane, whose invalid wife also conveniently expires. Francie, as the book ends, gets to college, thanks to McShane's $10,000 a year (he has become a Tammany Assemblyman...
...Albany this week the storm mounted: New York unions berated the State Legislature for inviting Captain Eddie to address a joint session. An A.L.P. Assemblyman demanded a resolution that the invitation was not the legislature's endorsement of the flyer's views. But Eddie Rickenbacker went right ahead in his crusade...
...protest. For a question accepted, Canada Dry pays $5, and $10 more plus the Encyclopedia Britannica if it stumps the experts. The Britannica prize was added last month. First winner, on Oct. 24, was Prisoner 12,973, Connecticut State Prison. 12,973's poser: "This man was an Assemblyman, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor, President of the United States." The man: Theodore Roosevelt. Guest Louis Untermeyer and the others said Franklin Roosevelt...
...Washington, D. C., visiting Philippine Assemblyman Villarama told newspapermen that there were only two things wrong with the United States: the national debt is too large and no one knows how to clean white shoes properly...
This gruesome ordeal had its effect. That very day Assemblyman Edgar F. Moran introduced in the Legislature an amendment to New York's Constitution to let the Governor share his most harrowing responsibility, by setting up a Board of Pardons. Today 16 States have Pardon Boards. But in most States, Governors, though they may rely on other officials to make factual investigations and recommendations, must exercise the awful power of pardoning and commuting sentences alone...