Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cook '36, of Concord; Frank S. Deland, Jr. '36, of Cambridge; John F. Ducey, Jr. '36. of Boston; Arthur F. Duffey, Jr. '36, of Arlington; Edward T. Farley '37, of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania; Louis C. Farley, Jr. '36, of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania; Ernest B. Fay '36, of Lake Charles, Louisiana...
...Omnibus Flood Control bill, authorizing $320,000,000 for reservoirs, dams, levees and spillways throughout the land; and a complementary $272,000,000 bill, sponsored by Louisiana's Overton, for flood control in the lower Mississippi Valley. Bursting with political pork, the Omnibus bill was passed by the House four days before adjournment last August, filibustered to death in the Senate by Maryland's Tydings. Revived by the floods of last March, it was pared of its local favors by a stern economy order from President Roosevelt. Called by Senator Copeland "the first porkless water bill ever passed...
...Original words: I came from Alabama Wid my banjo on my knee, I'm g'wan to Louisiana My true love for to see, It rained all night the day I left, The weather it was dry, The sun so hot I froze to death; Susanna, don't you cry. Oh! Susanna, Oh, don't you cry for me, I've come from Alabama, Wid my banjo on my knee...
...Louisiana Senate, whose assistant secretary for the past month has been Huey Long's son Russell Billiu, 17, unanimously decided to make August 30, Huey Long's birthday, a State holiday...
...British Colonial Office in Uganda and Ceylon. He was accustomed to spend half the year in London, where he was director of mycology in the School of Tropical Medicine, three months in the southern U. S. where he organized the schools of tropical medicine at Tulane and Louisiana State Universities. When Benito Mussolini summoned big, jovial Sir Aldo home to Rome in 1932 to found the Royal Institute for Tropical Diseases, it might well have warned the sharp-witted that Mussolini was interested in more than the natives of Italy's colonies. Before the Italian armies reached...