Word: baton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that was mortal of Huey Pierce Long was buried last week in a copper-lined vault sunk in the front lawn of the State Capitol at Baton Rouge. From the 33-floor tower of the Capitol which the murdered Dictator had built as a $5,000,000 monument to himself and which now served as his headstone, reporters saw that the vast funeral crowd had choked the roads for miles around. Below, ringed by 100,000 spectators, of whom some 200 fainted during the long wait before the services began, lay a great bright field of floral tributes: little bunches...
...this was of considerable embarrassment to District Attorney John Fred Odom of East Baton Rouge. It was up to him to investigate both the murder of Long and the execution of Dr. Weiss by Long's guards. Unfortunately District Attorney Odom is an anti-Long man, for Baton Rouge is an anti-Long town which did not mourn much for the Dictator's passing last week. What was more, Mr. Odom was among those present at the New Orleans meeting under discussion...
Married. Joyce Love Allen, 21, only daughter of Governor Oscar Kelly Allen of Louisiana, and Dr. Frederick J. Stare, 25, Rockefeller Institute Fellow; in the Executive Mansion, Baton Rouge...
Three days later in Baton Rouge something very serious happened to Huey Long. The seventh special session of Louisiana's Legislature was just getting down to the business of rubberstamping 39 bills devised by the Senator to tighten his one-man dictatorship over the State. On the floor there had been the customary brawling and cursing as the "Kingfish" strutted up & down the aisle giving orders to his henchmen. As the Legislature adjourned for the night, Senator Long marched out of the chamber and started down the corridor to Governor Allen's office, flanked, as always...
...year-old doctor named Carl Austin Weiss Jr. did it seemed fairly plain to local newshawks. Young Dr. Weiss, a Tulane Medical School graduate who practiced with his father in Baton Rouge, had married Miss Louise Yvonne Pavy. Mrs. Weiss was the daughter of Circuit Judge B. H. Pavy, a rabid anti-Longster in St. Landry Parish. One of the 39 bills up for passage by the Legislature was to gerrymander Judge Pavy's judicial district in such a way as to effect his ouster. Brooding darkly on this piece of petty politics, Carl Weiss apparently thought...