Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crowned Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was pretty Jessie Wing Janvier, daughter of Judge George Janvier of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, previously picked as Carnival Queen of the Twelfth Night Revelers and the Elves of Oberon. Her consort, Rex, Lord of Misrule, was President Albert Barnet Paterson of New Orleans Public Service...
...years Georgia's Dr. Charles Holmes Herty has worked like a beaver to tell people that Southern slash or loblolly pine will make as good newsprint as the Northern firs and spruces. Dr. Herty's point was that in North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are some 150,000,000 acres of second- growth timber, much of it the fast-growing slash pine,* more than enough for all the world if it could be milled into usable newsprint as it is already being milled into wrapping paper...
...Dealey of the Dallas News and Journal. Here Publisher James Geddes Stahlman of the Nashville Banner, chairman of the Southern Newspaper Publishers' newsprint committee, told his fellows that the proposed mill could start shipping an annual 45,000 tons of paper Jan. 1, 1938. Assembled publishers from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas promptly raised $5,000,000 to build the mill, ordered its entire output. Present price of newsprint is $45 a ton. Southern publishers hope their slash pine mill, and others like it, can give them all the newsprint they want for around...
Stricken at his home in Winnfield, La. lay Huey Pierce Long Sr., 85, father of Louisiana's late Senator, with his son Lieutenant Governor Earl K. Long at the bedside...
Back in America he aided Jefferson in the Louisiana Purchase, tinkered with his bridge models, fell out with his few remaining friends, suffered his worst blow when the election-supervisors at New Rochelle barred him from voting, called him an alien. He moved to Greenwich Village, died there while fighting off the churchmen who flocked to his bedside hoping to save the blackest soul in U. S. history. Though he asked to be buried in a Quaker cemetery, not even the Quakers would receive him. Repentant Journalist Cobbett dug up Paine's bones, intending to transplant them to Liverpool...