Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with current movement to oust Huey "Kingfish" Long from the United States Senate, the Liberal Club yesterday sent a telegram to Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, stating that they were absolutely in favor of the removal of this notorious senator from Louisiana...
Jezebel (by Owen Davis; produced by Guthrie McClintic). When in 1853 Miss Julie Kendrick (Miriam Hopkins) returns to her Twin Oaks plantation in Louisiana, after three years gallivanting in Europe, her supreme purpose is to wed her childhood sweetheart. Cousin Preston Kendrick (Reed Brown Jr.). Humiliated when she finds that, tired of waiting, he has already married a demure Yankee girl, Miss Julie behaves without regard for decency or decorum. She inveigles a young hot-head named Buck Buckner into picking a quarrel with Preston, hoping that they will duel and that Preston will be pinked. Instead, Preston...
...into the stagnant market for long-term capital. First to do so was Mathieson Alkali Works (industrial chemicals and the world's largest maker of chlorine), which quietly filed a registration statement in Washington for $7,000,000 of new common stock to finance a new plant in Louisiana. Said the New York Evening Post last week: "If one large and reputable corporation takes the plunge without catching pneumonia, why can't others do the same...
...character to his political puppet show, Louisiana's Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long went up to Arkansas last year, stumped the State with a motorcade and sound truck, elected Hattie Caraway to the Senate seat of her late husband. Wild was the uproar of outraged Louisianans last week when button-nosed, pugnacious Senator Long set out to ride Lallie Conner Kemp into Congress on his ruthless machine...
Representative Bolivar Kemp of the 6th Louisiana District died in June. In accordance with unwritten Congressional custom, Widow Lallie Kemp was endorsed by the Long faction to succeed him. Four other candidates also prepared to enter the primary to win a Democratic nomination which in Louisiana is the same thing as an election. Suddenly last fortnight, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen, a Longster, called a special election, to be held eight days after his proclamation. He boldly named Widow Kemp as "the unopposed Democratic nominee because there will not be time to hold a primary." At this latest piece...