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Thursday, March 2, and New Orleans was completely recovered from its Mardi Gras hangover-recovered as if struck by a douche of cold water, for that morning all Louisiana banks had been closed by proclamation. Hundreds of distracted visitors found they could not get funds to get home. Distracted thousands, natives and visitors, cursed Huey Long's Governor Allen, who the night before had entrained for the inauguration, who with his expense money in his pocket had dictated the proclamation and left it to be issued after his departure...
...means downhearted or broke, gay Brazilians have just spent an estimated $7,000,000 on their uproarious three-day Mardi Gras Carnival (Feb. 26-28). celebrated amid sizzling, record summer heat by nearly a million merrymakers...
...Undoubtedly we shall return to a greater prosperity than ever before. First we shall have 'inflation' and we shall find it good," said N. S. B. Gras, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Gras declared that this prosperity when regained would be the first stage in a period of physical and mental advances which will lead to a higher level of civilization...
...Campbell, Dr. W. B. Cannon '96, E. S. Castle '25, A. H. Chase, W. J. Cunningham, F. B. Deknatel, Raphael Demos, D. B. Durand '25, E. R. Ellis '16, Ephraim Emerton '71, E. S. Emory '87, M. L. Fernald, Holden Furber '23, Russell Gibson, N. S. B. Gras, C. B. Gulick '90 and Mrs. Gulick, J. P. Haffner '22, A. C. Hanford, L. J. Henderson '98, W. E. Hocking '01, F. W. Hoeing, F. W. Hunnewell '02, C. N. Jackson '98, E. R. James, T. L. Kelly, F. L. Kennedy '92, C. W. Killam, A. B. Lamb, W. W. Leontief...
...Monday. All will be happy." On Monday all banks opened for business one hour earlier than usual. The Hibernia ran a full-page advertisement (from which President Hecht's name was omitted), offering to pay each & every depositor on demand. New Orleans returned to its preparations for Mardi Gras...