Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill by Louisiana's Wilson requiring Government departments to purchase only U. S.-made supplies; sent it to the Senate...
...dodo bird" of the Wilson era and two Pueblo Indians, an R. F. C. director and a Big Navy lobbyist, a Senator from Illinois and a Senator from France, a onetime Governor of Kansas and a onetime Ambassador to Germany- neither he nor they would reveal. In Washington, Louisiana's Senator Long, radical Roosevelt supporter bucking the conservative Democratic leadership of Arkansas' Senator Robinson (see p. 12), gave this version of interviews with the President-elect: "When I talk to him, he says 'Fine! Fine! Fine!' But Joe Robinson goes to see him the next...
Beneath its crop of curly reddish hair the round pug-nosed face of Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long of Louisiana glared pugnacious defiance across the Senate Chamber at Virginia's famed Carter Glass. The bill that "won't go through before March 4" was Senator Glass's to revamp the Federal Reserve system. Senator Long, opposed to its branch banking features, was out to talk it to death. He waved his arms in mighty circles. He bludgeoned the Senate with loud arrogant words. He drove most of his colleagues from the Chamber in utter disgust. But almost...
...While Louisiana's Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long blustered and blathered on the floor of the U. S. Senate all last week in a filibuster against the Glass branch banking bill, designed to provide sound banking facilities for outlying districts, a wave of bank closings smashed over the outlying districts of St. Louis. With a clean record of no closings last year and only two since the Depression St. Louis was rudely introduced to sights long since familiar in many parts of the land: sullen lines of depositors doggedly crowding into a big building for their money, angry, shouting depositors...
...after Huey Long blustered thus last week, not a big Louisiana bank but the $32,000,000 Union Indemnity group of insurance companies tumbled into receivership-biggest crash in New Orleans for nearly 50 years. They were Huey Long's pet companies. Since his ascendency he has seen to it that Union Indemnity got all state departmental insurance, that it bonded all state employes, all bridge and highway contractors. Most of the group's insurance and bonds were immediately taken over last week by the Aetna group of Hartford, including the $50,000 bonds of Colonel Luke...