Word: governors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calls himself "Old Earl," gets up as early as 5:30 in the morning to let visitors wander into the governor's mansion. He appoints "colonels" with a lavish hand (some 250 to date) and presents lesser fry with penknives-after first exacting a penny so "a friendship won't be cut." He enjoys the feel of clean white suits, but he never allows his interest in the finer things to interfere with a certain honest vulgarity. On the day after he was elected governor, he asked friends to his house, spread out a copy of the anti...
Champagne & Talcum. Last week he was genuflecting more vigorously than usual before his brother's memory. He was doing everything in his power to get Huey's 29-year-old son Russell elected to the U.S. Senate. He sent his big, tough-looking Lieut. Governor Bill Dodd out on the road to blast Russell's closest competitor, Judge Robert F. Kennon, who had also had the audacity to oppose Earl for governor last January...
...tricks, Huey's share-tbe-wealth philosophy and Huey's lavishness with political promises for an ironic end-to prove to himself that he was a better man than Huey. And he had squeezed more dictatorial powers from Louisiana's supine legislature than Huey-or any governor of any U.S. state-had ever held...
...controls the Civil Service Commission which had been independent of politics for eight years. He has pulled Louisiana State University-where the bonfire of scandal burst after Huey's death-back under the governor's domination...
...nothing to tell your office," said the governor. "I don't need their help to run this state...