Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectators watched a charity game between picked teams representing North and South. South won, in an inch of snow, 7 to 6. From Knoxville last week came an announcement that Southern footballers have expected for several years: disintegration of the Southern Conference. Alabama, Auburn. Florida, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Kentucky, Louisiana State, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Sewanee, Tennessee, Tulane, Vanderbilt resigned, formed a new group to be called the Southeastern Conference. Reason: ". . . In our judgment the time has arrived for a more compact organization for the administration of athletics ... on geographical lines." Colleges left in the Southern Conference: Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North...
...Last week was mostly visitors week at Warm Springs. Important callers on the President-elect included Arkansas' Senator Robinson (short session program), Alabama's Senator Bankhead (Muscle Shoals), Nevada's Senator Pittman (silver), Louisiana's Senator Long (nothing in particular), Missouri's Senator-elect Clark (farm mortgages), Texas' Senator Connally (cotton prices). American Tobacco's George Washington Hill came to discuss upping tobacco prices. Rear Admiral Cary Grayson was told that the Roosevelt inaugural, which he will arrange, must be severely simple and inexpensive. The call of Henry Agard Wallace, bolting Republican farm...
...Carolina completed two passes for a touchdown; an Auburn fumble opened the way for another. South Carolina's Quarterback Hal Mauney kicked the goal that ended the game 20-to-20. first time Auburn has been tied this year. Tennessee, by beating feeble Florida 32-to-13, and Louisiana State ended the season in a triple tie with Auburn for the championship. In a poll of 31 sportswriters on southern newspapers, 22 favored giving the title to Tennessee for winning seven conference games to Auburn's six, with one tie each...
...Public Health Service Washington headquarters: "Beware influenza!" The number of cases reported had more than doubled in a week, had jumped from 3,086 to 6,306. The uncrowded South and West suffered most. Alabama's cases totalled 1,940 as against 204 the previous week. Louisiana had 600 (23 before); Arizona 479 (175 before); California 1,721 (903 before); Oregon 112 (81 before...
Redheaded, nervous, sloppy "Cump" Sherman was a West-Pointer but not a promising one. An officer during the Mexican War, he saw no action in it. When the Civil War began he had left the Army, failed as a banker, was living apart from his family as superintendent of Louisiana Military Academy. He liked the South, Southerners liked him. Though he was no abolitionist, and thought war between the States "all folly, madness, a crime against civilization," he refused a Southern command, went North to enlist. A colonel at the tragi-comedy of Bull Run, he chevied...