Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debated a bill by Virginia's Glass to reform the U. S. banking system, heard Louisiana's loud young Long tell its aged sponsor: "I happen to know a great deal more about branch banking than you have had a chance to know." ¶Adopted a resolution by Tennessee's McKellar calling upon the Civil Service Commission to report all Federal jobs outside Civil Service and open to "deserving" Democrats after March 4. ¶Debated War Debts and the French default...
...happen to know a great deal more about branch banking than the Senator from Virginia [Carter Glass] has had a chance to know. . . . The record of the State of Louisiana stands out with practically no such thing as a big bank failure." -Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long on the floor of the U. S. Senate...
...until the farm lobbies in Washington put their husky shoulders to the issue did Philippine independence make more than sentimental progress. Cane raisers in Louisiana, beet growers in Utah, were told that duty-free sugar from the Philippines was ruining their business. Philippine cocoanut oil was competing with domestic cottonseed oil. Manila hemp seemed to be hurting U. S. cordage producers. These miscellaneous economic units were pulled together in one grand and wholly selfish drive to put the Philippines outside the U. S. tariff wall by means of making them a free and foreign country. Louisiana's loud Senator...
...worked chiefly as a factfinder and cheerleader, with 44 State branches, to make the nation "illiteracy-conscious." In last week's report it pointed out that "examples of what has been accomplished by intensive effort are found in Louisiana, where some 90,000 illiterates were placed under instruction, and in Georgia where 118,000 were given similar help." The nation-wide illiteracy percentage, as of the census of 1930, is 4.3%, with 4,283,753 persons ten years and older unable to read or write any language. Illiteracy has dropped one-third in the past decade. The Midwest...
...three poorly patronized intersectional games: California smothered Georgia Tech, 27 to 6, at Berkeley; Oregon battered a light Louisiana State team, 12 to 0, in freezing weather at Baton Rouge; Florida, after a disappointing season, used smart passes and good breaks to surprise the University of California at Los Angeles, 12 to 2, at Gainesville...