Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well knew, not from any major development within the Philippines themselves but from a sudden and significant shift of economic and political opinion when the U. S. Rocky Mountain beet producers two years ago began to complain that duty-free Filipino cane sugar was depressing their industry. Louisiana cane-growers felt the same way. Concerns with $800,000,000 invested in Cuban sugar production lined up with them against the Philippines. From the North-west came the cry of dairymen that Filipino coconut oil was competing unfairly with their farm products. From the South cottonseed oil men joined the chorus...
...other nightlife centres. In New Orleans many a schoolchild is said to be an addict; prison authorities find muggle-smuggling a perplexing problem. Federal authorities say that marijuana, though a drug, is not a narcotic drug and therefore its users cannot be prosecuted under the Harrison Act. So in Louisiana the Legislature passed its own antimarijuana law. In California, Cornetist Louis Armstrong ("world's greatest Negro cornet player") was sentenced to jail for 30 days for taking poison when caught smoking a "reefer...
...days)?District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas (South Zone). Their old season was Nov. 1-Jan. 15 (76 days...
...heels of the Farm Board's rejected proposal to plow under every third row of cotton (TIME, Aug. 24), Louisiana's energetic red-headed Governor Huey Pierce Long last week called a conference to consider the cotton situation. To New Orleans flocked hundreds of State officials, factors, planters, millmen and plain farmers. The conference resolved that there should be no cotton planting in 1932, that the Federal Farm Board should buy up 8,000,000 bales of this year's crop to replace next year's. Under the plan Legislatures would prohibit cotton production. Such...
...medical researcher; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. In 1929 he received a Congressional Medal of Honor for work with the Gorgas-Finlay yellow fever commission in 1901. He was president of the Pan-American Medical Association, recently made head of the department of tropical diseases of the Louisiana State University Medical School...