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...long, upholstered office in City Hall sat the man who had his finger on this pulsebeat. Daily, at all hours, across the claret-colored rug streamed aides, colleagues, politicians, businessmen, repairmen, newsmen. The young man, who saw everyone, was the city's mayor: deLesseps ("Chep") Story Morrison, 35, handsome, bouncing, talkative, tough and stubborn...
...Chep Morrison, symbol of the bright new day which had come to the city of charming ruins, also symbolized as well as anyone or anything the postwar energy of the nation's cities...
...Federal Government which moved in on them at last, and sent Weiss, Shushan, Smith and Caldwell to jail. The way was open to reform. Sam Jones, an earnest attorney, routed the heirs of Huey Long and won the governorship. That was in 1940. In that same election, Chep Morrison was sent to the legislature...
Last week, a month and a half before taking office, Chep Morrison whirled round the Caribbean circuit on a second missionary journey to tell latinos that New Orleans in the future, as in the past, would be muy simpatico...
...latinos liked to hear it: they liked Chep, too. Presidents and mayors showered him with banquets and tropical rhetoric. Chep responded by promising to learn Spanish in time to welcome them all to his city. New Orleans and its kinetic new mayor were off to a fast start in the competition to funnel postwar commerce and culture between the Americas...