Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That fact accounted for the columns and columns of space the Press of the country gave last week to the bruise which Huey Pierce Long, Louisiana's tousle-headed, button-nosed "Kingfish," received on his left eye in the washroom of the Sands Point Bath Club fortnight...
...pounded northwest across the State. The Sandy Hook light was blown out and the Statue of Liberty went dark when lightning struck its power plant. So rough was the sea of Ambrose Channel that harbor pilots were unable to board incoming liners. Into Brooklyn was blown a baby Louisiana heron, with one wing broken. The storm gave the city a six-month supply of water in its mammoth reservoirs...
When the late Louisiana Collector Caspar Cusachs died, his heirs found Marie Leveau in his collection, sold the portrait to New Orleans Stockbroker Simon J. Shwartz. In 1926 he smilingly turned down an offer of $5,000. Hit by Depression, he later offered Queen Marie for $1,000, found no takers. Last week the Louisiana Historical Society bought the portrait for $126, to hang in the Society's collection in the Cabildo on Jackson Square. Through New Orleans, where "Marie Leveau charms" are still sold by obscure druggists and necromancers, rose last week a babble of amazing tales about...
...President de Cespedes. Under no illusions last week as to who could make or break him, small Senor de Cespedes publicly embraced tall Ambassador Welles, lauded him in repeated public eulogies. What Cuba fears is that the U.S. beet sugar producers and the cane sugar men from Florida, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines may succeed in their present drive at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to have U.S. imports of Cuban sugar reduced by a drastic quota to 1,700,000 short tons per annum-less than Cuba has exported to the U.S. in any year during...
...Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Mississippi...