Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have more than you uster. Last summer Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian of Pine Bluff, Ark., chanted that solution for rural Depression as he boarded a train for New York. Last week President Hoover appointed this president of the Arkansas Power & Light Co., the Mississippi Power & Light Co., the Louisiana Power & Light Co. and the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway to be one of the three Democratic directors of the potent Reconstruction Finance Corp. Aside from his demonstrated ability, Director Couch could thank for his appointment: 1) his personal friendship with President Hoover whom he helped out of a political hole during...
...whacked about bumptious heads on the streets of New Orleans. At Hammond, 42 mi. away, three men shot out a political argument; the loser was killed, the winners wounded. In Jefferson Parish shotguns bristled about a barn where citizens were forced to "vote right or else?" behind transparent cheesecloth. Louisiana was holding a Democratic primary which was equivalent to a regular election...
...recent years America has been especially rich in demagogues, from Mayor Thompson to the magnificent Huey Long of Louisiana, but none of them surpass "Alfalfa Bill" in the hearty buffoonery which is a large part of their appeal. His refusal to shave his moustache on the ground that doing so is injurious to the eyes deserves to be a classic of Americana. The obliging habit of standing on his head for reporters as proof that advanced ago has not destroyed his vigor is likewise a masterpiece of publicity hunting. With the Democratic convention approaching, his efforts for prominence will doubtless...
...years ago), seldom seen except in the far South (it stops infrequently on its flight from Baffin Land), is the great blue goose. Last week President Thomas Gilbert Pearson of the National Association of Audubon Societies concluded an airplane inspection of the many blue geese that winter in southern Louisiana. Near the mouth of the Mississippi he encountered a flock three miles long, half a mile wide. The geese were flying in three strata. Dr. Pearson estimated there were between 600,000 and a million of them. Because they migrate so quickly hunters get less than...
Military training is fostering a belief among students that war is necessary? Richard Cadwallader of Louisiana State University...