Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months Huey P. Long has been Louisiana's governor. To many it seemed ten months too long. He had ruled the state as a political dictator, had tramped into the Legislature at Baton Rouge to issue his orders, had played hob with the State's appointive boards and commissions. For ten months his opponents cringed before him, treasuring their grievances. Last week the gusty wind of popular favor veered 180 degrees and a hurricane of public condemnation swept down upon the young man who styled himself the "Kaiser of Louisiana...
Louisiana is a state unto itself. Many are its traditions, fine and enviable. One of them is that in its 117-year career in the Union it has never removed a governor by impeachment. Last week it prepared to shatter this tradition...
...Governor Long was farm-born 35 years ago at Winnfield in the upper part of the state. At 13 he peddled school books, developed an amazing gift of gab. Then he took to selling a lard substitute, conducting baking contests. The winner of such a contest in Shreveport became his wife. He hustled through a three-year college course in seven months to jump headlong into state politics-''on the people's side." His campaigns were never dull and usually triumphant. The cities to the south were against him but in the northern reaches of the state...
...lance of dispute and invective. Still rustic in manner, if not in thought, he keeps the countryman's water bucket and gourd dipper prominently displayed in the executive offices. To win his election he promised the state's farmers paved roads, free hospitals, free school books. As governor he spent money like an Osage Indian on a spree to fulfill these pledges, soon found that more revenue must be forthcoming to keep up the splurge. In March he called a special session of the Legislature to prepare new tax measures. Instead it prepared for his impeachment. Louisiana...
...Legislature of Quebec was assembled and waiting to be prorogued by Sir Lomer Gouin, His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor. In an anteroom Sir Lomer was rapidly affixing his signature to several dozen last minute bills. Suddenly his heart skipped strangely. Clutching at his side he lay down on a couch...