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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hot Town. The afternoon Item was started as a cooperative venture in 1877, fell into the hands of West Virginia-born James Mcllhany Thomson 30 years later, while its editor was serving time in jail for libel. Publisher Thomson hired scholarly Marshall Ballard (who had been a fellow student at...
Last week Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard'...
Publisher of the States (and of three other Louisiana papers) was the late Colonel Robert Ewing, a rich, mustachioed, onetime telegraph operator. In 1928 Colonel Ewing supported Huey Long for Governor, and Long won. On the day of Long's inauguration a messenger brought him a note from Colonel...
A few months later (after Long got rid of various political friends of Ewing's) the States dropped Huey. Subsequently Publisher Thomson's Item and Tribune decided to back him. They stuck with Long and his successors for nine years while the Tribune's circulation soared to...
Frost. It was a States reporter who last June unearthed the scandal in Louisiana's administration that sent President James Monroe Smith of Louisiana State University to prison, and so far has brought four other convictions in New Orleans alone on charges of fraud. One day Reporter Meigs Frost...