Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hell's Smith?" Huey Long snorted in 1930 when one of his stooges suggested that Dr. James Monroe Smith would make a properly pliant president for Louisiana State University. Last week a pertinent question in Louisiana was-"Where the hell's Smith...
Columnists Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen in their Washington Merry-Go-Round last week exploded a story, backed by affidavits, about diversion of WPA man power and materials to private uses in Louisiana. Chief privateer mentioned was none other than Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with flesh), 41, the burly New Orleans lawyer whom Huey Long on his deathbed named as his political heir...
Because "serious irregularities" in the finances of Huey's beloved Louisiana State University had turned up, and its President Dr. James Monroe Smith had vanished, Governor Leche at week's end temporarily postponed his resignation, this week handed over his job to impatient Earl Long...
...Louisiana Polytechnic Institute (Ruston, La.) Senior Ann Holstead wrote an essay for her English class. Said Sophomore Varnelle Plastow: "It smells." Thereupon Miss Holstead, a Louisianan, challenged Miss Plastow, a Long Islander, to a duel. Time: the morning after Miss Holstead's graduation. Place: behind the stadium. Distance: ten paces. Weapons: chocolate pies. Result: Miss Plastow got plastered...
Married. Russell Billiu Long, 20, son of the late demagogue, Huey Pierce Long; and Katherine Mae Hattic, 19, junior at Louisiana State University; in Baton Rouge...