Word: batons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baton Rouge, La., was brought John Schenayder, 82, backwoodsman, charged with making whiskey. Speaking only French, John Schenayder pleaded guilty through an interpreter, said that he had been making whiskey 50 years, had never heard of the Prohibition law, did noi know that the Civil War was over...
...most ever formed by a Harvard band at a single game. At this game also the name of the Harvard captain was spelled out for the first time. Fifteen times during the season, Slade the drum-major as well as the leader of the band, sent the long silver baton soaring over the crossbar of the goal post and each time he gracefully retrieved it. The altitude record for baton throwing was set between the halves of the William and Mary game when Slade hurled the baton over the crossbar seven feet above the uprights of the goal post...
South: Georgia Tech v. Vanderbilt, at Atlanta; Louisiana v. Mississippi, at Baton Rouge; Navy v. Ohio State, at Baltimore; V. P. I. v. Virginia, at Blacksburg...
...Terrell threatened to sue Governor Long for alienating his wife's affections. Mrs. Rose McConnell Long whom the Governor married in 19103 after she had won a baking contest with a lard substitute he was peddling, does not regularly reside with her husband in ihe executive mansion at Baton Rouge or in his elaborate hotel suite in New Orleans. She remains at Shreveport where she says she prefers the schools for the three Long youngsters...
Early one morning last week at Baton Rouge, James J. Bailey, Louisiana's Secretary of State, died suddenly of pneumonia. Governor Huey Parham Long, the State's 36-year-old political dictator, went around to the Bailey home to offer condolences. When he returned to the capitol, he said to pretty little Miss Alice Lee Grosjean, his hazel-eyed, auburn-haired, 24-year-old confidential secretary: "Miss Grosjean, write out a commission appointing Miss Alice Lee Grosjean Secretary of State, effective at once." An hour later Miss Grosjean took the oath of office, telephoned her parents at Shreveport...