Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When scandal broke its levees in Louisiana last summer, began to rise pocket-deep around public hirelings high & low, a cynical citizenry waited to see what would happen to Huey Long's topmost heirs: ex-Governor Richard Webster Leche. New Orleans' Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, New Orleans Hotelman Seymour Weiss...
...indictment for evading and conspiring to evade income taxes, for conspiring with Dick Leche to violate the Federal "hot oil" law restricting petroleum production. Alone of the Big Three, Bob Maestri is unindicted.*He still runs New Orleans and Louisiana (through Huey's little brother Earl, who became Governor when Dick Leche resigned). Accustomed to the rise-and the subsiding-of political scandal's flood, Louisianans concede Boss Maestri an excellent chance to get Earl Kemp Long re-elected next January, keep the shell-shocked but undestroyed Long machine intact...
...with being the father of the submarine and the underwater explosive which is still one of the most effective weapons against it. During the Revolution he built an oaken submarine with which unsuccessful attempts were made to screw bombs onto the hulls of British warships in Boston Harbor, off Governor's Island, and in the Delaware River above Philadelphia. His "torpedo" (an oaken magazine enclosing 150 Ibs. of gunpowder) went off harmlessly. Too frail to operate the soon discredited "Bushnell's Turtle" himself, its inventor blamed its failure on its operators. After the war he was believed...
...persuaded him into pedagogy. He lived to fulfill Dean Burgess' prediction, to expand Columbia from 5,000 to more than 32,000 students, to turn down the presidencies of Stanford and the State universities of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, Washington and California. Dr. Butler reports that Governor Leland Stanford of California offered him $25,000 to be Stanford's first president, when Dr. Butler was getting $3,500 as a Columbia professor...
Peter Saltonstall, second son of the Governor, is another Yardling who enrolled yesterday. Last year he did some fame winning of his own when he won the 1000 meter run in the private school meet as a student at Noble and Greenough School. Yesterday afternoon he reported for Freshman football as a guard candidate...