Word: electioneerings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since his election in 1934, Judge Gitelman has indeed given birth to many ideas and innovations with respect to the law's relation to motorists. Another of his notions is that taxicab companies should provide double-chauffeured cabs, one driver to take a tipsy motorist home, the other to...
Huey Long did not increase the size of Louisiana's Supreme Court in order to get himself a majority. He did not need to. He, and his machine, had the opportunity to get four friendly justices out of seven on the bench. It took a little more finagling, however...
Only trouble with this system from the Long standpoint was that in 1934 his enemy T. Semmes Walmsley used it to get re-elected Mayor of New Orleans. So two years ago Huey Long, striding up and down the aisles of his Legislature and cracking the whip, passed a law...
Lawyer Eugene Stanley-onetime district attorney of New Orleans, who quit when Long appointed an entire staff of Longsters to serve under him-recently culminated his old war with the Long machine by setting out to kill Long's primary election law. As attorney for John W. Ward, candidate...
One suggestion was that former Governor James A. Noe, wealthy north Louisiana oilman, had influenced the decision. He is planning to run for Governor at the next election against Earl Long, Huey's brother and the present lieutenant governor, and naturally would not like to be counted out in...