Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received petitions from Louisiana citizens calling for the ousting of Senator Huey Pierce Long...
...Louisiana will not be an exhibitor at Chicago's "Century of Progress" Fair this summer was last week explained to an Alexandria, La. audience by Arch Johnson of the World's Fair staff, as follows...
...more consequence last week to the chunky, rumple-headed Louisiana "Kingfish" than keeping his State out of the Century of Progress was the matter of keeping himself in the U. S. Senate. To Vice President Garner 24 Louisiana citizens dispatched a sizzling petition calling for the ousting of Senator Long on eleven charges. The Vice President turned the petition over to the Senate which whisked it temporarily out of sight to a committee. Its chief sponsor was John Milliken Parker, onetime (1920-24) Governor of Louisiana and longtime enemy of the Long machine...
...created and maintained in Louisiana a system of corruption and debauchery unparalleled in the history of the State, not even excepting the so-called Louisiana Lottery...
When more Louisiana petitions kept arriving this week in the Senate, it became clear that Citizen Parker was in deadly earnest. And when John Parker is in earnest he can fight, even at 70. A slim, wiry, suntanned Louisiana aristocrat, scion of wealthy Mississippi planters, one of the South's richest cotton factors, he is the antithesis of a red-headed ragamuffin from Shreveport. Before the turn of the century, he headed the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. A lifelong foe of civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local...