Word: louie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bonus Bill. To persuade them that the President is still their best bet in the White House, National Democratic Chairman Farley last week patched together a Veterans Advisory Committee of Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, et al. To head this committee he appointed fat, jovial Louis Arthur ("Louie") Johnson, onetime (1932-33) National Commander of the American Legion. Legionary Johnson is also an Elk, a Shriner, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, all of which sodalities consider him a "regular fellow," a potential vote-getter...
...Diedrich his wife said, "I allow him to have one drink a day but he takes so long getting that drink I have to go to the tavern after him." Because Diedrich's baby son has the judge's middle name, Jerome, he was discharged. Of himself, Louie Sarna said, "I suffered more than I ever expect, judge, your honor, the shame. My ambition it has always been not to beat my wife. I no do it again." Of Felix Stanley who is usually arrested for throwing his wife out the window, she said...
...President, is in fact the Secretary for secretaries, a member of the President's private as well as official family and his most trusted adviser. Not since Woodrow Wilson's Joseph Tumulty has any President's Secretary had such importance. The Howe-Roosevelt association began 22 years ago when "Louie" was a newshawk in Albany and "Franklin" was a young state Senator. Howe went to Washington in 1913 as secretary to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, went on the 1920 campaign tour with Vice-Presidential Nominee Roosevelt, and, the year after, sat at the bedside and read to poliomyelitis...
...maintain the hot air supply. The Bonettes were commemorating that event, but their balloon relied on its original supply of hot air. At about 3,000 ft. it struck a layer of cold air, began to shrink and descend. That should have been the signal for King Louie to jump with his chute, but now he felt he must stay and look after the camera. Faster & faster the bag dropped until a ground wind caught it, dragged it across the town of Valley Stream. As Bonette & camera dropped safely upon the roof of a lumberyard, the bag fouled a telephone...
...balloon's mouth, and just above the trapeze was a platform holding an automatic cinema run by batteries. Out from the little crowd stepped a handsome young man, shedding his cloak with a nourish to reveal gorgeous white silk tights, glittering with spangles. He was Louis ("King Louie") Bonette, junior member of Bonette Bros., daredevil aerialists. Daredevil Bonette perched himself on the trapeze, looked to his parachute, waved a nonchalant signal, and sailed off skyward in the hot air balloon with the camera clicking down...