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...Governor Huey Long of Louisiana woke up early one morning, last week, and thought about shoes. He knew that 1,600 prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary were making their own shoes. He knew that the shoes were very short-lived. Each convict was wearing" out three pairs a year...
...Louisiana, St. Bernard Parish, a riverside neighborhood below New Orleans, was the scene of shooting, clubbing, screaming, money-grabbing, hacking with axes, punitive bonfires. Huey P. Long, youthful, tempestuous, theatrical, newly-installed Governor of Louisiana, had been busying himself with whirlwind reforms in various departments of the State, when he heard that two St. Bernard gambling houses had dared to reopen despite his warning. He issued and personally taxied with an order to the Adjutant General to call out a raiding party of the National Guard. The offending establishments, facing each other in the same street, were the Jai-Alai...
...Albert Huey, 12, the grand little straight-shooter of Kenmore, Ohio, had never been more than 30 miles away from home until he went last week to Atlantic City, N. J., and won the marbles championship of the U. S. His rewards: a gold watch, an Indian headdress, blanket, stone tomahawk. Gladys ("Tomboy") Coleman, favorite of the galleries, was eliminated early in the tournament. But she received a silver loving cup, along with the 47 other participants, at a church service in the Apollo Theatre...
This year's tusslers were Ormel Hinkley Simpson, who rose from Lieutenant-Governor to fill the big chair when Governor Henry J. Fuqua died in 1926; Huey P. Long, a talkative, curly-headed bantamweight on the Public Service Commission; and U. S. Representative Riley Joseph Wilson, who tried to gain fame as a Mississippi flood controller...
...Bric-a-Brac Committee from the class of '99 has been elected as follows: Managing editor, George K. Reed; B. H. Lewis, C. Y. Freedman, F. B. Voorhees, R. H. A. Carter, R. S. Davis, S. B. Huey, S. K. Martin, and R. W. Smith. The class also decided to elect five men from the freshman class to act in connection with the '99 Bric-a-Brac Committee...