Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earl Long was never much shucks in school. But Earl, like his late brother Huey P., is hot stuff at political algebra. Last week Louisiana's latest Governor gradually unfolded before the lackluster eyes of his citizens a complicated new formula for solidifying his power. At first the succession of events made no sense: only by week's end did the political algebra begin to solve...
Under blunt Police Superintendent Louis F. Guerre, State troopers tramped into the office of David M. Ellison, Attorney General. Capt. J. A. Holliday called out his militia, saying "it was nothing but a drill." By these martial hints, Ellison learned he was no longer Attorney General. Governor Long had decided after four months that Ellison had taken his oath of office illegally. Also ousted was the first assistant, bald, old Kingfish-worshipping James O'Connor. Next day Ellison, with a straight face, remarked that Long had done him a "favor," withdrew from the January 16 primary as opposition candidate...
...algebra began to clear a little. To Byrne's job the Governor appointed Neils Hertz. One hour and 15 minutes after Hertz had been sworn in, the three-judge hearing on the rebel jurors' charges was dismissed, on Hertz' motion. The argument: if Byrne is out, why investigate him? After months of work, the jurors were getting close to what may be Louisiana's highest-smelling corruption, the alleged "tax racket," whereby citizens and corporations agreed with tax officials on luscious tax reductions, with the savings split both ways. To terminate the hearing on Byrne...
...Governor Long then began his New Orleans campaign for the Governorship with the reassuring statement that his "hands were clean." But at this point the Federal Government showed interest in why the tax-racket hearings had been stopped. One of Attorney General Frank Murphy's "smart boys," Harold Rosenwald, announced that the Federal Grand Jury would immediately start hearings. Earl Kemp Long kept mum. But he and all Louisiana were aware that only Earl's boss, Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, still remained untouched by the tidal wave that in four months has washed up nearly...
Winnie Ruth Judd stuffed cans of soup, spaghetti, bread and a jar of jelly in a pillow case, stole two pairs of shoes, left a maundering letter to Governor Robert T. Jones, and slipped out. For 15 minutes she appeared at the nearby bedside of her invalid, 80-year-old father, then vanished in the night. Police watched her invalid 56-year-old husband, Dr. William C. Judd, in Sawtelle, Calif., Hospital Superintendent Louis Saxe broadcast a promise: she could run the prison beauty parlor if she'd return. One night this week a burglar fled from a Phoenix...