Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Herman Melville finished writing Moby Dick, the golden age of U. S. whaling (1820-50) was on its way out. It probably hit its peak around 1846 when lusty Yankee whalers out of New Bedford and other New England ports came home with some $8,000,000 worth of crude whale oil. But by 1900 the U. S. industry had passed into history due to the exploitation of cheap petroleum products and a scarcity of whales. Since then it has revived, but last week it appeared that it might be doomed once more...
...time to chase a lot of rats out of the State pantry," shouted the Rev. Carl F. Lueg, Methodist pastor of Hammond, La. "Business is picking up, eh, boys?" to newshawks said huge, rich ex-Governor Richard W. ("Dick") Leche, who turned the ruins of the old Huey Long machine over to Brother Earl Long in the nick of time...
...were regular attendants of the early meetings in the spring of 1921. They were Charles S. ("Casey") Jones, Richard ("Dick") Blythe, C. B. D. Collyer (deceased), Earl D. Osborn, Donald McIlheny (deceased) and myself...
...year when faculty salaries were in arrears. No man to stop the fun was Huey's political heir, Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with "flesh"). "I swore to uphold the Constitution of Louisiana and the United States, but I did not take any vows of poverty," Dick Leche used to say. One of L. S. U.'s new buildings is Leche Hall...
When prospering, arthritic Dick Leche found it wise to quit last week and turn over the Governorship to Huey's brother, Earl (TIME, July 3), James Monroe Smith was nowhere in sight, someone having seen to it that he had plenty of time to vanish after he resigned. By the week-end the man whom L. S. U. students publicly derided as JIMMY THE STOOGE had become a peril to the whole post-Huey machine in Louisiana, and particularly to Earl Long's hopes of being elected Governor in his own right next year...