Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibility that these securities might fall. . . . And if Dr. Butler were sold out he would be even- his securities gone but his debts wiped out. He took the gamble and should be made to stick to his bargain." Judge Grover M. Moscowitz continued the case. At a Louisiana fair, when Huey Pierce Long, introduced as "the greatest statesman in the U. S.," denounced the Recovery program, one Sammy Klotz of Napoleonville yelled: "What about that Long Island affair?" [TIME, Sept. n]. Surrounded by state police and his bodyguard. Senator Long yelled back: "Come down here and I'll Long...
Shortly after Senator Huey P. Long got a black eye for committing a nuisance in the Sands Point (L. I.) Bath Club washroom and invited the Roosevelt Administration to "go to hell" before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Milwaukee, a Women's Committee of Louisiana, composed mostly of New Orleans socialites and headed by Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sat down to write a telegram. It was addressed to the five members of the moribund Senate committee assigned to investigate the malodorous election of John Holmes Overton, Long henchman, to the Senate. Mrs. Hammond, sister...
...Lorimer out of the Senate. . . . Speaking of contempt, Senator, why do you refuse to proceed against Long's henchman, Seymour Weiss, treasurer of the Long racketeering machine, who as a witness treated your committee to all the insults and contemptuousness that could be handed out? . . . The women of Louisiana cannot be frightened off by any such telegram as yours...
...this zoo there are regularly 25 monkeys, 250 mice, 150 rats, six alligators, 45 frogs, three pigeons, a dozen garter snakes, 50 rabbits, 40 guinea pigs, 12 turtles, and two or three dozen Louisiana bullfrogs. This supply is replaced about twice a week. There are also occasional specimens of opossums, woodchucks, chimpanzees, special varieties of monkeys, canaries, racoons, crayfish, and sheep. Once in a while the farm receives rare animals from explorers and they have at present a South American quoquit which resembles a cross between a raccoon and an ant-eater. Also ench winter the farmers of Wakefield...
...medium sized chimpanzee costs between $500 and $600 depending on how "civilized" the animal may be. Monkeys range from four to seven dollars. Hens, ducks, etcetera, are all bought at regular market prices by the pound. Pigeons and turtles both range from a quarter to 85 cents and a Louisiana bullfrog cost a dollar. Oppossums are $4 a pair and copperheads are $8 each. Crayfish and snails both cost about a nickel each and salamanders are 25 cents each...