Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harrison. With Governor Hugh White of Mississippi they drove to Jefferson Davis' onetime estate (now a home for Confederate veterans) and on to Gulfport, home of Senator Harrison. There the President was joined by his son Elliott and Governor Richard Webster Leche (pronounced lesh) of Louisiana and entrained, beginning the significant part of his journey...
Several hours later at New Orleans the moguls of Louisiana politics turned out to greet the great New Dealer. Still alive in every memory were Huey's thunderings at the New Deal, Huey's laws forbidding the spending of Relief money in Louisiana (since Mr. Hopkins would not let him have its spending) and the New Deal's retaliatory income tax evasion suits against the Longster tribe. By last week all that was changed. The President and his son were whisked away to Antoine's, famed old restaurant in the Vieux Carre, to eat Proprietor...
These three Longsters had every reason to return the President's cordiality, for the Long State machine and the Farley National machine are now on terms of mutual respect and cooperation. The Louisiana prohibition against New Deal money has been abolished, and WPA millions now flow freely into Louisiana. The old income tax indictments, including that of Mr. Weiss, have been quashed...
After a sumptuous luncheon the new rulers of Louisiana were glad to take Franklin Roosevelt to Bonnet Carre spillway which the Government built to save New Orleans from floods. Finally they put him aboard the destroyer Moffett and waved happily at him and Son Elliott as they disappeared downstream. Two days later the President joined his yacht Potomac at sea, proceeded to Port Aransas near Corpus Christi, and set out to make friends with tarpon...
Rated the underdog. Rose Lolita Long, daughter of the late Louisiana "Kingfish," won a hot primary contest for the presidency of the Women's Student Association at Louisiana-State University. Candidate Long's manager, her 17-year-old brother Russell Billiu was aided by Oscar K. Allen Jr., son of Louisiana's onetime Governor. Election day all three cut classes, wheedled at the polls, won for Rose by 27 votes...