Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their heads, had only snapped their beaks before darting away. The majority of victims, however, had actually been struck with beak or claws. Frequently the skin was painfully lacerated. One correspondent wrote that he knew a lumberjack who had suffered from a clawed neck for several months. In Louisiana, a Negro complained that an owl had gouged his eye out. The birds in one U. S. town developed a peculiar antipathy for policemen, made frequent passes at their blue-capped heads...
Bronchiectasis, dilatation and inflammation of the bronchial walls, is the unsuspected cause of 95% of all "bronchitis" cases.-Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner, New Orleans. Dr. Ochsner has not yet placated Governor Huey Pearce Long of Louisiana, who ousted the able young surgeon from his post in New Orleans' Charity Hospital (TIME...
...Louisiana, "every man is king, every woman a queen, but none wear crowns." The people have spoken-let them rule...
Early one morning last week at Baton Rouge, James J. Bailey, Louisiana's Secretary of State, died suddenly of pneumonia. Governor Huey Parham Long, the State's 36-year-old political dictator, went around to the Bailey home to offer condolences. When he returned to the capitol, he said to pretty little Miss Alice Lee Grosjean, his hazel-eyed, auburn-haired, 24-year-old confidential secretary: "Miss Grosjean, write out a commission appointing Miss Alice Lee Grosjean Secretary of State, effective at once." An hour later Miss Grosjean took the oath of office, telephoned her parents at Shreveport...
Last week's appointment which elevated Miss Grosjean to a State office higher than any woman had ever held before in Louisiana set many a gossipy tongue to wagging. It also set to wagging the new Secretary of State's tongue: ''I'll probably have a little time now to go to dances, play some golf and tennis. . . . I'm going to modernize the office. . . . I'm going to take a vacation. . . . I love to dance. . . . I don't believe a woman's place is in politics. . . . I'd rather...