Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Locked in his room at a mental hospital in Galveston early last week, Louisiana's Governor Earl Long was raging. He wanted out, demanded that he be permitted to return to his home state. He hired lawyers; then he fired them when they refused to do his bidding. At length, he implored his wife Blanche to get him released, promised her that he would submit to psychiatric treatment in New Orleans. Blanche Long, worried about her husband's loss of weight and fearing for his weak heart, agreed. After Earl signed a paper releasing his wife and state...
...once he was back in his own state, Louisiana's mad Governor erupted once more. Scarcely had he signed in at New Orleans' Ochsner Foundation Hospital than he began demanding his release again. For three hours his doctors tried to outtalk him, but Earl insisted that he wanted only to drive to his farm-or maybe a friend's farm-where he could rest. He was, after all, still the Governor of Louisiana; nobody could stop him, he cried. But wife Blanche...
...Williams to get commitment papers ready, then sped up the 80-mile, Huey-built Air Line Highway to Baton Rouge to sign them. While she was on the way, Coroner Williams and Parish Sheriff Bryan Clemmons ordered two detectives onto the highway at the parish line to wait for Earl Long, who would surely soon be racing for Baton Rouge to reclaim his power...
Sure enough, a half hour later, a white, unlabeled, state-police Ford sped by. A trooper was driving, and with him sat Earl Long. In the back sat an oldtime Long friend, Physician-Oilman (reputed annual income: $7,000,000 to $8,000,000) Martin O. Miller. The two detectives radioed the word to the sheriff's office, swung behind the Ford and began trailing it. In a few minutes came a message from Sheriff Clemmons: "The papers have been signed. Put your plan into effect...
...Earl Warren, former California governor, U.S. Chief Justice................. D.C.L...