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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
There, this summer, thousands of men, women & children will for the first time try their skill at badminton, most popular lawn game of the year. Practically unknown as an al fresco pastime five years ago, the British-born game of badminton-batting a shuttlecock (or "bird") back & forth over a high net-has become a U. S. vogue as quickly and ubiquitously as women's open-toed shoes...
...Edinburgh court refused to deal with the divorce suit of the U. S.-born Duchess of Leinster. Reason: her husband, Edward Fitz-Gerald, Premier Duke, Marquess & Earl of Ireland, was not domiciled in Scotland. To prove it the court quoted from his earlier declaration: "My departure from Scotland has been really to suit my wife. She one said she could not live with blackfaced sheep and lochs and I saw a certain amount of truth in that...
Although he headed Lockhart Iron and Steel Co. (founded by his father, who was also a co-founder of Standard Oil Co.), looked like Andrew Mellon and had a finger in several Mellon enterprises, few had ever heard of old John Lockhart. He was born, lived and died in the same street in Pittsburgh's east end. He ate sparingly, rarely drank, never married. No intellectual, he read few books, but was fond of the theatre and made a hobby of collecting theatre programs, which he always had autographed by his companions. He was a member of Philadelphia...
...good. A kindly man, he refuses to install bookkeeping machines in his offices, because they take away jobs. A thrifty man, he does not hesitate to take his family on vacations to Miami, Atlantic City, Lakewood, N. J. According to another Salop legend, when his first child was born, 16 years ago, Salop put her on his payroll at $75 a week; likewise the second daughter, born four years later. (His older daughter, he once remarked, was not very smart in school. "But she knows what stocks...