York State Assemblyman

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    Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began to sketch the idea for a new machine on the back of his wife’s nightgown. He asked her if she knew the figure he was drawing. “Yes,” she answered, “the figure of a fool.”
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)