Word: earls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soak the city of New Orleans, which Earl regards as hostile, by upping taxes on pari-mutuel betting by 30% and slashing the city's share of that revenue. New Orleans has the only flat-racing track in the state...
...violation of campaign pledges of no new taxes) by jumping state levies on natural gas by 250%, on sulphur (Louisiana is the nation's second-biggest sulphur producer) by 200%, on timber by 100%. When industry spokes men warn that such taxes will stifle Louisiana's economy, Earl challenges them to go some place else if they don't like...
...governor," wearily explained one onlooking lawmaker, "is at it again." Indeed he was. At the end of an hour of labyrinthine maneuvering on the floor, Earl Long got the bill (to increase taxes on pari-mutuel betting) propped up for reconsideration...
...Spend. Since he began his second full term less than two months ago, there has been scarcely a day when 60-year-old Earl Long hasn't been at it. He has vilified the mildest of opponents, ruthlessly axed holdover appointees from other administrations, defied legislative rules and traditions by roaming the floors of both houses at will. Long's goals, as many a despondent Louisianian sees them: 1) a tax-and-spend policy to dwarf the fondest dreams of the late Brother Huey, even at the risk of bankrupting the state, and 2) a campaign to tighten...
...Call a convention to overhaul the state's cumbersome constitution, a move that Long's critics (while admitting the need for constitutional revision) see as Earl's gambit to change the constitution so that he can succeed himself...