Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camp news to assure them that the 1937 major-league season would start in Boston (Bees v. Phillies) and Washington (Senators v. Athletics) April 19, one day before the other teams start functioning. Meanwhile last week, 16 major-league teams, moving north from their camps in Florida, Cuba, Texas, Louisiana. Mexico and Southern California, were winding up their series of exhibition games while baseball experts, governed by ancient tradition, predicted how the teams would stand when the 1937 season ends...
...times as much money as has been authorized for Washington's Jefferson Memorial is involved in another scheme to honor Patriot Jefferson at St. Louis. Though St. Louis, onetime capital of the great Louisiana Territory which President Jefferson bought from Napoleon in 1803, already has a Jefferson Memorial built for the Exposition of 1903,* real-estate interests put through a scheme to sell to the Government 37 blocks of river front property to become a national park. A taxpayers' injunction, obtained in September, has temporarily halted work...
Huey Long did not increase the size of Louisiana's Supreme Court in order to get himself a majority. He did not need to. He, and his machine, had the opportunity to get four friendly justices out of seven on the bench. It took a little more finagling, however, to make Louisiana elections safe for Long. As elsewhere in the South the important part of Louisiana elections is the primary. Louisiana's primary law provided that every candidate could hand in the names of his choices for election clerks and commissioners. All the names were written on slips...
...suggestion was that former Governor James A. Noe, wealthy north Louisiana oilman, had influenced the decision. He is planning to run for Governor at the next election against Earl Long, Huey's brother and the present lieutenant governor, and naturally would not like to be counted out in the primaries by the other faction of the machine. More startling was another report. The present Governor, Richard Webster Leche, has everything lined up for appointment to the Federal bench when a new judgeship is created "to clear crowded dockets." In some quarters Governor Leche was thought...
...Louisiana State University's huge Jack Torrance made his world record shot-put of 57 ft. 1 in. in 1934 at Oslo. If he had made exactly the same throw at New York or Rome, the shot would have traveled one inch farther; if at Madras, two inches farther-because of differences in the force of gravity. Moreover, since the field at Oslo was not checked by surveying instruments, there may have been an undetected inch of deviation from absolute flatness. In that case the throw would have been an inch longer or shorter, depending on whether...