Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governor of Louisiana, Huey P. Long liked to boast that he could buy & sell legislators "like sacks of potatoes." As far as the New Orleans Item (circ. 96,000) is concerned, things are not much different under Governor Earl Long, Huey's brother. Last week, when a legislative committee voted one way on a tax bill, then flip-flopped when the order came down from Governor Long, the Item sourly commented: "The large majority of our distinguished Senators and Representatives have about as much independence as trained seals. When their trainer barks, they jump...
This time the legislators also jumped on the Item. Invoking a constitutional clause that not even the Kingfish himself had ever used, the Senate by a vote of 31 to 4 moved to cite Editor Clayton Fritchey of the Item for "disrespectful, disorderly or contemptuous" conduct toward the legislature. Maximum penalty: ten days in jail...
...newspaper believes the State Senate ... is not acting in the best interest of the public, it is not only our right but our duty to say so." Then Fritchey and Stern, responding to a summons from a sergeant-at-arms, appeared before a Senate committee to answer for the Item's outspoken words...
...hour and 15 minutes, as 800 spectators cheered, applauded and booed, the two newsmen boldly stood up for the rights of a free press. They refused to retreat one whit. In the face of the Item's firm stand, plus editorials in other newspapers unanimously rebuking the legislators for their attitude, the committee backed down, voted to forget about prosecution of Editor Fritchey and Publisher Stern. The most disappointed man in the committee room was undoubtedly Senator A. O. Rappelet. Legislative Clown Rappelet had brought along a huge balloon, a ball and four plastic fish, but the chairman never...
...their reign, Eleanor was Henry II's full partner in the building of empire. She made long progresses with him through their possessions, sometimes levied justice and taxes when he was away, and more than all, reformed the manners of Western Europe to woman's advantage. Item: men were no longer permitted to shamble, hang-stocking and grime-necked from the chase, into a lady's presence; instead, the bear-limbed barons were required to get up in gay, slashed mantles and pointed shoes and drench themselves in a daze of scent...