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Louisiana's new Governor Earl Kemp Long last week began to make sounds reminiscent of his brother, the late great Huey. To make a show of cleaning up the mess left by his predecessor, ill and thinning (260 to 242 Ibs.) Richard Webster Leche, Earl Long ordered certain Louisiana officials to stop selling materials to the State through companies they control; abolished the State Publicity Bureau (most of whose ten employes were contributors to the weekly Louisiana Progress which ex-Governor Leche sold before he resigned); announced that from now on nobody had to subscribe to or advertise...
Dedicating a WPA swimming pool in the small French-speaking city of Opelousas, Governor Long announced that he intended to investigate every complaint of wrongdoing on the part of State officials. He hotly denied that as Lieutenant Governor he had been "a mere rubberstamp" for Governor Leche and begged the people not to condemn the entire State Government just because a few irregularities had turned up. Bellowed he: "Jesus Christ had twelve men and one of them turned...
...other diversion of WPA materials and labor. Postal inspectors were seeking evidence of mail fraud. Agents of the FBI were looking into various charges of graft and corruption, and the Treasury Department was checking the income tax reports of Dr. Smith and several politicians. There were reports that Governor Long would call a special session of the Legislature to fire a few officials who were reluctant to resign. Earl Long, worrying about getting elected for a full term next year, didn't say he would and didn't say he wouldn...
...first tee of a Southampton, L. I. golf links, former Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith, whose form is picturesque, took a vicious swipe at the ball, missed, sprained his left foot...
Convalescing in a Manhattan hospital from near-fatal peritonitis, popular ex-Fisticuffer William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey was snowed under by more than 2,000 telegrams, visited by Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, roundly bussed by Daughters Barbara and Rose...