Word: acadian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Raceland, in Louisiana's trench speaking Acadian community, Freddie John's fiancée, Waitress Louise St. Germaine of Napoleonville was heartbroken. His father showed the boy's last letter...
Louisiana's Public Service Commissioner Martin, no Creole, calls himself an Acadian (i. e. descended from Acadian exiles). But nobody except a jesting friend or a bold enemy would call him "Cajun," a term usually applied to semiliterate or illiterate poor folk of French descent.-ED. No Shorts Sirs: On Sept. 23, p. 13, you stated in your publication that Airs. Franklin D. Roosevelt "spent a morning at her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt's cottage on Brown's Lake near Jackson, Mich., while neighbors with field glasses ogled the First Lady disporting herself on the beach...
Career: His family was French Acadian, long isolated in the Mississippi Delta region. After public school, he was graduated by the Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. Followed two years of itinerant school teaching. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he joined the 2nd U. S. Volunteer Infantry, was elected Captain of Company I. He served a year in Cuba, fighting through the Santiago campaign. As an assistant secretary, he went to the Philippines with the Taft Commission. Back in Louisiana he got a quick law degree from Tulane University, was admitted...