Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion was that former Governor James A. Noe, wealthy north Louisiana oilman, had influenced the decision. He is planning to run for Governor at the next election against Earl Long, Huey's brother and the present lieutenant governor, and naturally would not like to be counted out in the primaries by the other faction of the machine. More startling was another report. The present Governor, Richard Webster Leche, has everything lined up for appointment to the Federal bench when a new judgeship is created "to clear crowded dockets." In some quarters Governor Leche was thought...
...game? Time will tell. David Windsor is in the forefront of the battle for human rather than property rights, and for the spirit of marriage as opposed to the Letter of the Law. He stands in a symbolic relation to his age, and will influence it as his brother never will...
Standing by the window in a fifth-grade classroom upstairs was John Nelson's brother Don, a 24-year-old oil worker who was watching over his mother's class of 25 youngsters. He heard a loud noise. Plaster started falling. He thought for a split second of the window. Then two or three of the children started running toward him. He herded them out into the open fast. Out in the schoolyard, Don Nelson saw the ground littered with bodies. Two men ran up to him and they crawled back into the ruins together. A heavy bookcase...
...drunken male's arrival while Raymond, swathed in yards of striped pongee, listens trembling in his bedroom. Next day, after he has volunteered to act as butler at a dinner she is giving to celebrate her engagement, Raymond is horrified to find her fiance is his own brother, Claude (Reginald Owen). Dumping salad dressing over Claude's dinner clothes is a less effective weapon for engagement-breaking than the information Raymond can supply about the debts of Mrs. Wetherby. The man in possession buys the debts, breaks up the wedding party, takes possession of the furniture and, finally...
Physicians stuck pins into Helen Love and slapped her face without getting response. A practical prosecutor suggested dousing her with cold water, but the doctors forbade that on the ground that the shock might kill her. Helen Love's brother helpfully recalled that soft, classical music had once brought her out of a similar fit. But none was available in the Los Angeles jail. Then a dapper psychiatrist named Dr. Samuel Morris Marcus took a hand. He rubbed the woman's eyelids, tickled her behind the ears. That caused her to twitch, to murmur: "Don't, Harry...