Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five long years Louisiana has been held fast in the political fist of its crudest, rudest demagog-Huey Pierce ("King-fish") Long. By last week it appeared that his grip was gradually weakening. His prestige has been badly damaged at home because patronage from President Roosevelt has been going to anti-Long men, a situation which caused Senator Long to blurt out at a Milwaukee veterans' convention: "To hell with the Administration!" And over his head hangs the threat of Federal court action on charges of income tax evasion...
...Republican Senate appointed a committee headed by Nebraska's Robert Beecher Howell. now dead, to investigate campaign expenditures. Also last year Senator Long, by a feat of political rough-&-tumble. had his henchman John Overton, a Grade B Representative, nominated (and automatically elected) to Louisiana's other seat in the U. S. Senate. Defeated for renomination. Edwin Sidney Broussard spent his last days in Washington crying that he had been politically raped and robbed...
...their counsel. For nine months the inquiry slept. Fortnight ago it was revived as the result of vigorous protests from such outraged Louisianans as Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long New Orleans Times-Picayune, and her Women's Committee of Louisiana (TIME...
TIME limited itself to discussion of the six most conspicuous Humpty Dumpties of the season, intended no slight to other undefeated teams, which at that time included: Centenary, Duke, Louisiana State, Minnesota. St. Thomas, Nebraska, Oregon State. Oregon, Davis-Elkins, Duquesne, Mississippi, Ursinus. For reports of Nebraska, able champion of the Big Six Conference, see TIME. Nov. 20 and p. 33 this issue. Last week's score: Pittsburgh 6. Nebraska...
...Next day Secretary Woodin emphatically denied that he or other Treasury experts were opposed to the President's policies. The well-known fact remains that the Treasury and Federal Reserve group favor hard money, look upon the Warren experiment with misgivings. -The five other helpless States: Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas...