Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly $37,000,000 in back salaries. Many a school stayed closed, notably in the South and Southwest. Elsewhere many a school opened on a limited budget, prepared to stick it out as long as money lasted. Arkansas and Oklahoma were planning to keep going on beer tax receipts. Louisiana could manage for seven or eight months, then perhaps save the schools with a liquor...
...Island), Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah, Washington, Oregon, southern Idaho, northern New Mexico. Nov. 1 to Dec. 31-Long Island, N. Y., Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, California, northern Texas. Nov. 16 to Jan. 15-New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, southern Arizona, southern Texas, southern New Mexico. Nov. 20 to Jan. 15-Florida...
...already. I'll eat this." He danced just once-until his partner's husband took the lady away. He thrust himself behind the bar, shoved its tender aside, loudly proclaimed that he would show the world how they mix and shake them in Louisiana. The Sands Point Bath Club is not noted for decorum on Saturday nights but Senator Long's behavior was far over its mark...
When about midnight the lights went down for the amateur floor show, Huey Long went shuffling off to the washroom. There were others there. The raucous Senator was impatient of any delay. Imperiously he ordered a young man to stand aside for the "Kingfish of Louisiana." "Take it easy-take it easy," replied the young man. Unable or unwilling to restrain himself, Senator Long proceeded to commit a gross indignity upon the young man. When he felt what was happening to his leg the young man wheeled around, drove his knuckles with all his might into the offender...
...time Senator Long was in Milwaukee to address the convening Veterans of Foreign Wars. When a New York Sun reporter called the Senator by long distance telephone for his version of what happened, an angry splutter of unprintable profanity came over the wire. Finally from his Milwaukee hotel the Louisiana "Kingfish" issued a statement. Excerpts...