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...primary, the first since Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and became the first non-white politician to hold the state's highest office since Reconstruction. Jindal, one of the few young rising stars in the G.O.P. ran on a strong reform platform. "Don't let anyone talk badly about Louisana," he said during his Saturday night victory speech at a Baton Rouge Holiday Inn. "Those days [of corruption and incompetence] are officially over. There has never been a clearer mandate for our state...
Ganz's group urged particularly that the University sell its stock in Middle South Utilities, Inc., which owns power companies in Arkansas, Louisana, and Mississippi. The group charged that Middle South has racist hiring policies and is affiliated with segregationist legislaors...
...Pennsylvania Railroad's Columbus-to-Dayton stretch a section gang working near Selma, leaned on their tools one morning last week to watch the crack St. Louisana whip by on its way from Manhattan to St. Louis. As the flyer thundered past there was a tremendous gasp from the big, black K-4 locomotive, and from the cab belched strange clouds of steam. On toward nearby Cedarville it hissed, roared over the Main Street crossing with no warning blast, came to a wheezing stop at the town's westerly limits. But no human hand had thrown the brake...
...Dedicated at Baton Rouge last week with the inaguration of Oscar Kelly Allen as Governor of Louisana (successor to Alvin Oliver King, acting Governor since Mr. Long went to the senate.) was the State's new $5,000,000 Capital with a 33-story tower, locally nicknamed "Huey Long's Silo...
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