Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, John Patrick Sullivan, 61, potent Louisiana politician, archfoe of the late Huey Pierce Long, onetime (1911-12) Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks; after a sunstroke; in New Orleans...
Arkansas & the Constitution. ". . . The Louisiana Purchase . . . has always had a special significance for me. I am interested in it for family reasons because Robert R. Livingston,* our Minister to France, negotiated the purchase by direction of President Thomas Jefferson-and I must admit that he drove a very shrewd bargain. . . . [Jefferson] had the courage to act for the benefit of the United States without the full and unanimous approval of every member of the legal profession...
...Robert R. Livingston put the treaty through; the next Congress appropriated the money; nobody carried the case to the Supreme Court; and, as a result, Louisiana and Arkansas and Missouri and Iowa and Minnesota and Kansas and Montana and North Dakota and South Dakota and the larger portions of Wyoming and Colorado and Nebraska and Oklahoma fly the Stars & Stripes today...
...even when directed by Frank Borzage and surrounded by such players as Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Stephenson, Arthur Treacher, Claude Rains. Miss Davies is Betsy Patterson, a belle of old Baltimore. Mr. Powell is Jerome Bonaparte, sent over to represent Napoleon at ceremonies surrounding the Louisiana Purchase. The picture is notable solely for the Rains characterization. Ham actors long to be Napoleon. Mr. Rains makes Napoleon a ham actor...
...Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche, a novice tobacco-chewer, squirted a stream at a Statehouse cuspidor at Baton Rouge, was so pleased when he hit it that he remarked: "I'm going to challenge the Texans to a tobacco-spitting contest...