Word: earls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goods dealer who became president of the Levee Board; James Monroe ("Doc") Smith, president of the university; and big George Caldwell, superintendent of buildings at L.S.U. There were others, like Robert Maestri (rhymes with pastry), the conservation commissioner who later became New Orleans' mayor. And there was Earl, Huey's less talented brother. "I ain't like Huey," Earl admitted. "I gotta go slower...
...there are some ominously familiar voices raised against him. One rival candidate is Congressman Jimmy Morrison (no kin to Chep), who stands for things with a demagogic Huey Longish ring: more four-lane highways, $50-a-month pensions for the old folks. Another candidate is Earl Long himself, who was shouting in a gravel voice that nobody never proved nothin' crooked about Earl K. Long, the White Knight of the poor folks. He will probably finish close enough to Jones in the primaries to require a runoff...
Long and Jimmy Morrison got down on all fours, playing the game of politics. Morrison confided last week: "The other day I got my rumor factory goin' on the story that Earl has cancer of the throat. I know it ain't so, but that's politics...
...Virginia Varsity, coached by Earl "Greasy" Neal, Lamar was "just one of the boys" in the line, doing most of his work at tackle. The Virginia team, unlike today's Cavaliers, were "an average squad" that tied Princeton once while Lamar was in the line...
...Reality. In 1924, as Nellie had predicted, the paved highway came, not long after she and her sons, George Roberson, now 60 (by her first husband) and Earl Coffman, now 55, had borrowed $35,000 to build the first concrete buildings which are now part of the rambling Desert Inn, with its tile-roofed guest houses, swimming pool and tennis court. They continued expanding through 1930, when the depression caught them $675,000 in debt. Not until 1945 did Nellie manage to pay off all her debts...