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Word: longsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Huey's Girl | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Morality Lecture | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...Still alive in every memory were Huey's thunderings at the New Deal, Huey's laws forbidding the spending of Relief money in Louisiana (since Mr. Hopkins would not let him have its spending) and the New Deal's retaliatory income tax evasion suits against the Longster tribe. By last week all that was changed. The President and his son were whisked away to Antoine's, famed old restaurant in the Vieux Carre, to eat Proprietor Roy Alciatore's specialties: oysters Rockefeller and Pompano en papillate. Only a small company were present, for too many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: For Tarpon | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...right Governor Leche (already "Dick" to him), on his left swart Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri of New Orleans, once Huey Long's Conservation Commissioner. Governor Leche, who two years ago was an unknown Long judge, now has hopes of a place on the Federal bench. Only other big Longster present was Seymour Weiss, Huey Long's onetime treasurer with whom the President cordially shook hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: For Tarpon | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...them !" cried the Longster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Innocent Shushan | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

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