Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mississippi's Governor Hugh Lawson White and Louisiana's Richard Webster...
...Miss. A novice sailor, Louisiana's Leche selected Commodore Garner N. Tullis of the Southern Yacht Club to be his skipper. Mississippi's White, however, had no trouble winning the race. Said the Governor of Louisiana to the Governor of Mississippi: "Governor, you're a damn fine sailor...
...front cover) One year ago next week a young man in a white suit stepped out into a corridor of Louisiana's Capitol at Baton Rouge and changed the course of U. S. history by pumping a fatal bullet into Huey...
Long. Since then the closest approach to the earthy, colorful antics and harangues of a Roosevelt-hating Democrat with which Louisiana's Senator used to pack the galleries and make national headlines have been the juvenilities of West Virginia's Rush D. Holt. Next week-one day before the anniversary of Long's death-Georgians will have a chance to supply the nation with a Senate successor who comes considerably closer to matching the talents and temperament of the late Kingfish. To oust Senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr., 38, from his comfortable seat in the Democratic primary...
...Huey Long," says Gene Talmadge in his vaudeville-hill billy drawl, "was a mighty smart man. He and I were mighty good friends." That Georgia Governor and Louisiana Senator had made a deal "to stop Roosevelt" before Long's death, Talmadge admits. The extent and degree to which Gene Talmadge possesses Huey Long's talents is a subject for observers to debate and time to determine. But certain it is that the Governor of Georgia hates the New Deal as bitterly as the one-time Governor of Louisiana ever...