Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...STRAIN and WOLVERINE BLUES (Louisiana Rhythm Kings and Benny Goodman's Boys; Hot Record Society, 308 Fifth Ave., Manhattan). These rare and exciting discs, recorded in 1929, are repressed by the Society to illustrate "the rise of the Boogie Woogie and the emergence of the Chicago Style." Boogie woogie is characterized by heavy offbeat bass and repetitive melody...
...Louisiana, mostly in the five "Florida" parishes north of New Orleans, is the world's biggest strawberry grower. Last year's crop was estimated at 3,500 carloads (Oregon, 2,500; Tennessee, 2,000). Last summer 200 strawberry growers around Hammond, La. got a lawyer named James Hobson Morrison to organize them into the Louisiana Farmers Protective Union and protect them from the chain stores. James Morrison took a sound truck around the State, before long had 10,000 members. By last week he had made almost every chain "kiss a pigeon"- which in Louisiana means to knuckle...
...resemble their venerable counterpart, one major difference is that most are considerably shorter-lived. Three-quarters of the State constitutions provide for conventions at the behest of their constituents, making the average age of a State constitution between 20 and 25 years. New Hampshire has had eleven constitutional conventions, Louisiana ten, New York seven. In 1894 New York's Legislature made mandatory a referendum every 20 years after 1916 on whether a convention should be called. In 1916 the voters apathetically said No. In 1936 they apathetically said Yes. So last week 164 elected delegates, six of them women...
...late Huey Long took over Louisiana State University, started a $10,000,000 building program. Last month Louisiana's Governor Richard Leche invited Italian Ambassador Fulvio Suvich, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and Managing Editor Walter Harrison of the wealthy Oklahoman & Times to help dedicate the college's $1,200,000 Agricultural Center Coliseum. Last week, these oddly assorted dignitaries succeeded in turning the ceremonies into an interesting verbal fracas...
...which he had worn for the sake of experiment taped to his leg. The fleas came from rats. And that explained the mode of transmission of a mild type of typhus fever (Brill's disease) which exists endemically on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from New York to Louisiana (TIME...