Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Days passed and Louisianans waited ?waited for their Governor Huey P. Long to deny charges leveled at him publicly in the papers of Col. Robert Ewing, Democratic National Committeeman from Louisiana. The charges which Governor Long was challenged to deny read...
Governor Long, a hot-headed young man, took office last May after a campaign in which he was supported by Col. Ewing's New Orleans States, and Shreveport Times. Soon after, taking office Governor Long began using the state militia to make raids on gambling resorts in the suburbs of New Orleans. Last month the raiders forcibly searched some of their prisoners. Women prisoners were stripped by women bystanders, infuriating their escorts, outraging public opinion...
...States supported the raids but strongly criticized their method. Governor Long thereupon accused Col. Ewing of being a protector of the underworld, which so infuriated the aristocratic Colonel that his newspaper attacked the Governor's own doings on the night of the "stripping" raids. A party had been given that evening by Alfred M. Danziger, President of the New Orleans Association of Commerce. Governor Long had attended and from there was supposed to have issued orders to his raiders at the very time, it was alleged, that he was being entertained by a troup of jazzy show girls. The States...
...Cabinet of Calvin Coolidge, served one day and a fraction in the Cabinet of Herbert Hoover?until William DeWitt Mitchell was confirmed and sworn in. It was under Herbert Hoover that Mr. Sargent performed his last official act. That act was the signing of a parole releasing Col. Thomas Woodnutt Miller, onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian, from Atlanta Penitentiary...
...convicts at Christmas time. Attorney General Sargent did not see fit to sign the parole then. But he did not forget. He bided his time, until his last hour in office. Then, safe from the jibes of the Senate which was on the point of adjourning, Mr. Sargent set Col. Miller free...