Word: batons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Monroe Smith was dean of the College of Education at Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Lafayette when Huey snatched him to Baton Rouge. Tall, bald, Dr. Smith shaped into an ideal academic puppet. Huey began to spend $13,500,000 on L. S. U. for sumptuous buildings, a monster swimming pool, "professional" footballers, a huge Medical Center in New Orleans. Contractors, politicians and public jobsters fattened, and the student body jumped from 2,100 to 8,550. Midway in this adventure into education, Huey announced: "If there's any title I'm proud of, it's Chief...
More was soon known of the educator's finances. Three banks in New Orleans and Baton Rouge disclosed that they had just lent Dr. Smith $500,000 on notes signed by himself as president of L. S. U. The big brokerage house of Fenner & Beane in New Orleans had just asked him to withdraw $375,000 in L. S. U. bonds which he had posted as collateral for gambling in wheat futures. The State Attorney General announced that these notes were worthless and the bonds were unauthorized...
...East Baton Rouge Parish (County) Grand Jury indicted Dr. Smith for embezzling $100,000. Broker Charles Fenner said that Jimmy Smith in his gamblings had acted for perhaps a dozen "friends." First to be so identified was small-fry Business Manager Edgar N. Jackson, who had put $2,000 on the chance that a European war would boom wheat prices...
When investigators from WPA and the Department of Justice sped to Baton Rouge, Dick Leche welcomed them on his sickbed, where arthritis born of infected teeth had him down. And he announced that illness constrained him to resign, bequeathing the governorship to Huey's ambitious, vituperative Brother Earl, the Lieutenant Governor. Said Richard Leche: "Mr. Long has tremendous backing throughout the country and is the announced choice of Mayor Robert S. Maestri of the city of New Orleans...
Married. Russell Billiu Long, 20, son of the late demagogue, Huey Pierce Long; and Katherine Mae Hattic, 19, junior at Louisiana State University; in Baton Rouge...