Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of Dr. John Earle Uhler, ousted from Louisiana State University last October because of his novel Cane Juice (TIME, Oct. 26), was closed last fortnight when the University paid his year's salary in full. The American Civil Liberties Union, which had wished a court action, uttered grumps...
...writes Dr. John Earle Uhler in a novel, Cane Juice, which he published last month.* A Yankee, born in Media, Pa. forty years ago, he had gone to Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) to be a member of its English department after teaching for eleven years at Johns Hopkins. He admitted he wished to "write a lyrical story of Louisiana life." He visited Louisiana bayous, talked to Creoles and Cajun folk, watched them at work in sugar-houses. Last week Dr. Uhler's cane juice was seething, fermenting angrily...
Dealing with the career of an uncouth but righteous and ambitious Cajun who makes good at Louisiana State, Cane Juice is earnestly, sometimes ably written. Like many another contemporary novel of student life, it introduces toping and lechery. There are observations on the sugar industry (Louisiana State has an Audubon Sugar School) and in the end the hero wins a refined girl ("union of sweet nurtured cane with the rough stock of the wilderness") and is indicated as a potential sugar tycoon...
...academic freedom," getting up petitions, holding meetings. Dr. Uhler's resignation was at once demanded. Few days later, in spite of sputtering members of the American Association of University Professors (of which Dr. Uhler is a member) and a committee of New Orleans writers headed by Lyle Saxon (Old Louisiana, Lafitte, The Pirate), he was suspended. Then met the University Executive Board, of which Governor Huey Pierce Long is a leading member. Forthwith it dismissed Dr. Uhler...
...Louisiana observers remarked: 1) that Baptist Governor Long, engaged in tussling with Lieut. Governor Paul Cyr over his job (see p. 13), might win Catholic sympathy by a tactful gesture in the direction of complaining Mgr. Gassier; 2) that Dr. Uhler (and three others) won a libel suit a year ago against one Kemble Kenneth Kennedy, 29, friend and protege of Governor Long who had published an obscene, yawping edition of the University Whangdoodle, calling Dr. Uhler a narcotic addict and a lecher. For this Protege Kennedy was sentenced to a year in jail, was at once reprieved by Governor...