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Last fall New Orleanians learned that their beloved Fair Grounds had been sold to a syndicate (price: $460,000) which planned to subdivide it into small lots. The Longster syndicate which took over the track from Bradley had failed to make a go of it. Governor Sam Jones's reform administration had set up a new State racing commission to control bookmaking, enforce saliva tests, and the Longsters had decided to pull...
Louisiana. On the fifth anniversary of the death of Huey Long the remnants of his dictatorial machine were all but erased. Of eight Longster Congressmen, four were beaten, two were forced into runoffs, one failed to run, only one was renominated. Victory went to the reform regime of Governor Sam Houston Jones, whose favorite candidate, robust, balding Felix Edward Hebert (pronounced E'-bare), won the Democratic nomination (tantamount to election) to Congress in the First District in a walk. Son of full-blooded Cajun parents, Nominee Hebert was city editor of the New Orleans States last summer when...
...Administration supporter ("I want to help Mr. Roosevelt do the same things for the nation that Huey did for Louisiana"), Senator Ellender kept right on doing business at the old stand. He fought Sam Houston Jones just before Jones swept the State and smashed the Long machine. He boosted Longster Dick...
...Collector of Revenue to a $5,000 job as State Supervisor of Public Funds. Last week she was suddenly fired. Few days later her husband, William Allen Tharpe, was dropped from his $5,000 job as secretary of the State Tax Commission. Other Grosjean relatives on the payroll trembled. Longster Grosjean had evidently offended Louisiana's reigning triumvirate
...Smith's seat from South Carolina. Mr. Roosevelt said it "clarified the issue" and he urged the voters to swing in behind Governor Olin D. Johnston, his agent to "purge" Senator Smith. Mr. Brown ruined the effect of this appeal by blasting Candidate Johnston as an insolent Huey Longster...