Word: batons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orleans, Nov. 18 While Sensior Hucy P. Long debated in Baton Rouge today whether to "go to the woods" for a rest or not, New Orleans business men spent a gloomy Sunday pondering the full significance of Louisiana's 44 new laws...
...Senator then rushed off to Baton Rouge to address a pep meeting in behalf of his political football team, Louisiana State University. The team was getting ready to trounce George Washington University in Washington, 6-to-0. In its absence, "Kingfish" Long proclaimed that the rally constituted a parish meeting, solemnly had Right Halfback Abe Mickal elected State Senator...
...Baton Rouge, after Louisiana students, some of whom were not above using pseudonyms to get the Senator's bounty twice, had "borrowed" $3,000. 5,000 students and townspeople last week clambered aboard five special 14-coach trains painted red, white, blue, orange and green. Going through Mississippi, Huey Long stood on the rear platform of the first train, waving and shouting at crowds assembled on station platforms, farmers working in fields. With him were the members of his private bodyguard, whom he had arranged to take along as "deputy game wardens...
...first of these is Leroy Anderson '29, director of the Band, whose arrangements and vigorous waving of the baton over his charges have made him a popular figure with the student body. This is evidenced by the vehement cries of "Wintergreen" which greet the musicmen on their appearance each Saturday...
...founder and headmistress of Pleasant Hall, swank girls' private school at Shreveport. Still pending was her suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long for causing her false arrest and calling her a "drunken cursing woman" when she sought to see public State records in the State Capitol at Baton Rouge (TIME, June...