Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as this treaty shall have been ratified by both parties, as hereinafter mentioned." The treaty was not ratified by the U. S. until Feb. 17, 1815. Hostilities were not expected to cease until the treaty was ratified. Had Andrew Jackson lost, instead of won at New Orleans, Louisiana would have been a British colony. Correct therefore, is Rose McConnell Long; correct also is Reau E. Folk, chairman of the Tennessee commission on research into the real value of the Battle of New Orleans, who first brought the matter to light. This society is sponsoring a correction...
...Aldo Castellani, of the Royal Italian Medical Corps, member of the faculty of the School of Medicine of the Louisiana State University, will not give his annual lectures at the Medical School this spring. Dr. Castellani is commander-in-chief of the Italian Medical Corps and must remain close to the Ethiopian situation until the war is ended...
...wild-eyed Negro known as Lead Belly (real name: Huddie Ledbetter). John Lomax' protègé was a murderer, but he was also a natural-born minstrel. From a Texas jail he won his pardon by singing a petition to onetime Governor Pat Neff. In the Louisiana swamplands his knife made more trouble. Again he was imprisoned, again got out with a song when John Lomax made a phonograph record of it, submitted it personally to the late Governor Allen...
...been seen hovering near her desk. As the best-looking Senator whom her colleagues have ever seen, she is shown special consideration on all sides. In the press gallery some ill-bred wag suggested that the parliamentary inquiry most frequently in Senators' minds is: "Will the Senator from Louisiana yield...
...Whitney. Inventive John D. Rust hit on the idea of using a moistened, rotating spindle to which the cotton in open bolls would stick. His brother Mack, who had gone to college and worked for General Electric, came to help him. Last year, after successful experiments in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, the Rust Cotton Harvester began to attract nationwide attention (TIME, April...