Word: abed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Longsters, depressed since their leader's assassination, life once more seemed good last week. In New Orleans' Federal District Court a jury had just pronounced the late Senator's crony. Abraham Lazard Shushan, not guilty of dodging Federal income taxes (TIME, Oct. 21). Happy "Abe" Shushan, who, a few hours before, had been sobbing brokenly as his attorney pleaded for his wife & children, glimpsed three news photographers snapping their cameras...
...Government had charged, and the defense freely admitted, that from 1929 to 1933 "Abe" Shushan received and failed to report for tax purposes more than $400,000, largely through a 2?-per-cubic-yard tribute which he, as president of the New Orleans Levee Board, exacted from dredging contractors. The defense maintained that these payments were simply political contributions which passed through Shushan's hands as a collector for the Long machine. The Government traced large sums of Defendant Shushan's "political" income to personal expenditures, while the defense could trace only $44,000 to the Long treasury...
...Government prepared to file a civil tax suit against him, "Abe" Shushan resigned his presidency of the Levee Board, announced he was out of politics for good...
...Abe" Shushan, squat, swart dry goods wholesaler, has been well rewarded for the helping hand he gave Huey Long at the start. Grateful Governor Long made him an honorary colonel, showered his firm with fat, noncompetitive contracts to supply the State with such things as prison uniforms. His crowning reward was the presidency of the New Orleans Levee Board, with permission to build and name for himself a $4,000,000 airport having "Shushan" engraved 3,200 times on its metal, stone, tile and bronze. It was he who, as a bosom friend, stayed by Long's death...
...odds, for a 16-horse race, of 5-to-4. He broke well, was in fourth place going downhill toward Tattenham Corner, came into the straightaway third, took the lead from Field Trial a furlong from the wire, won by two lengths with a 50-10-1 shot, Sir Abe Bailey's Robin Goodfellow, second...