Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long's letter, addressed Senator Huey Long, s.o.b.? He naturally was furious, and shouted that no one could call him that. Upon making inquiries at the post-office, he was informed that the letters stood for Senate Office Building. 'Well, that isn't what we call it down in Louisiana,' he sputtered...
...made a name as conductor and composer. But last week he learned that even a determined young musician cannot always rule his own actions. Bristling with energy he arrived in Berlin to conduct Rubin Goldmark's Gettysburg Requiem, a symphony by the Russian Borodin and his own Louisiana. Scarcely was he off the train when he was informed that his program had been changed for one of German music. Gettysburg had been banned. Director Lorenz Horber of the Berlin Philharmonic said, "because we are having trouble with the U. S. just now." Louisiana was finally reinstated on the program...
...calendar with his annual statement: "The Yankees are stronger than last year." Last week Col. Ruppert so stated, and its followers throughout the land then knew surely that Baseball was at hand again. The season opens April 12. After their month of limbering, exercising, exhibition games in Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and California, it was possible last week to cast up a rough account of how the 16 major teams stand this year...
Died. Charles Frank Borah, 65, attorney, father of Federal Judge Wayne G. Borah of Louisiana's Eastern District, brother of Senator William Edgar Borah; in New Orleans...
...economic possibilities are suggested by this new paper. In the economic background is the fact that two-thirds of American newsprint now is imported. Spruce pulpwood costs $9 to $10 a ton. Pine in the South sells for $3.50. . . . Most of the sulphur used in papermaking is hauled from Louisiana to Canada, right through the South. Much of the clay for filler for book paper in America is produced by the three Georgia counties, Washington, Bibb and Wilkinson. It is now shipped Ions distances. In Georgia it almost literally clings to the roots of pine that can be made into...