Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More illiterate are Louisiana (21%), South Carolina (18.1%), Mississippi (17.2%). In respect to illiteracy among native whites, Alabama ranks seventh after New Mexico, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina (1920 census...
Alfred Clarke Bedford, son & namesake of the late chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, was made president of Colonial Beacon Oil Co., Jersey subsidiary. Previously he was vice president of Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana, also a Jersey subsidiary...
...with the Insull interests for the export of power from his native Maine but could not well explain why the electric rate at Bangor should be 9¢ per kilowatt hour. He favored moderate Federal regulation, opposed public operation. Democrat Marcel Garsaud was opposed by Alfred Danziger, an agent of Louisiana's loud little Governor and Senator-elect Huey Parham Long, who charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit for the job because of business obligations to New Orleans Public Service, an Electric Bond & Share subsidiary. Republican Claude Draper, for twelve years a Wyoming Public Utilities Commissioner, made the Senate Committee snicker when...
...what made it possible for little knots of men to be painting Central Park benches, digging sewers in The Bronx, performing clerical work in city hospitals, pitching manure on Park Avenue's thin central strip of grass. Total thus employed: 17,300. ¶ New Orleans jobless began hawking Louisiana oranges on the streets. Manhattan's unemployed fruit vendors sold tangerines two-for-5?. In Elizabeth...
...realize I'm precipitating an issue but it's going to be raised." Always more docile than the Senate, the House Agricultural Committee voted (12-to-6) in favor of $30,000,000 drought loans for feed & seed after squashing a $60,000,000 proposal of Louisiana's Democratic Representative Aswell. His comment: "The crookedest, cheapest political action I've ever had thrust in my face. ... I thought I was dealing with honorable gentlemen." Meanwhile the G.O.P. moved to set up at Des Moines an "agricultural division" of its National Committee...