Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack Torrance of Louisiana State threw a 16-lb. shot 52 ft., 10 in.-two inches farther than the accepted world's record...
TIME erred in applying the word "watershed" to the industrial area, including 15 states bounded by Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio and North Carolina, which the Tennessee Valley Authority is designed to serve and which was officially measured by President Roosevelt...
...never want to go home, joined the fray. Pennsylvania's Reed called the President's action a "contemptuous gesture." Shouted Missouri's Clark: "Why is June 10, this day, sacred for adjournment?" Retorted Senator Borah: "Because the World Economic Conference begins on Monday." Starting a filibuster, Louisiana's Long strutted the floor: "There's no hurry. We're not going to leave here tonight or tomorrow night or the next night." Democratic Leader Robinson telephoned the White House, asked the President to withdraw his reorganization order. The President refused, told Senator Robinson to hold...
Sued. Huey P. ("Kingfish") Long, U. S. Senator from Louisiana; by Anne Ector Pleasant, wife of Louisiana's one-time Governor Ruffin G. Pleasant; for $250,000. Charges: that he defamed her character by arresting her without cause after ordering her out of the State House 1932, that he called her "a drunken, cursing woman." Chirped the Kingfish: ''That means that up to date I have been sued...
...Heard Louisiana's Long demand the resignation of Secretary of the Treasury Woodin because in 1929 he shared in a stock cut-in deal with the House of Morgan...