Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators who sat in the last session of Congress the one least liked by his colleagues was undoubtedly the late Huey Long. Had a secret vote for that distinction been taken, a runner-up to the Louisiana "Kingfish" would probably have been blind Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. He was so unmeasured in his attacks on President Roosevelt, his wife and family, that even the sternest opponents of the New Deal shivered. But just as Senators were shocked by the assassination of Democrat Huey Long, so last week they were shocked by the tragedy that befell Republican Tom Schall...
...Government's return to the Court was to argue the case of eight Louisiana rice millers (TIME, Dec. 2) who asked a permanent injunction to prevent the collection of processing taxes from them. In the Hoosac case Lawyer Pepper had, by contrast with Solicitor Reed, got off without being asked embarrassing questions by the Court. Not so John P. Bullington, attorney for the rice millers, who was peppered with interrogations from liberal members of the bench. To prove his clients' right to an injunction Lawyer Bullington explained that if the rice millers paid...
Ends-Tinsley (Louisiana State), Moscrip (Stanford...
Aldrich, reserved, immaculate chairman of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, put on a pair of overalls at Minden, La., climbed into the cab of a locomotive on Mr. Couch's Louisiana & Arkansas R. R. Mrs. Aldrich boarded a coach and the train chuffed off to Hope, Ark. There Utilitarian Couch had a hillbilly band at the station to meet them. The Aldriches climbed out, danced a square dance on the platform before Host Couch whisked them off to his island lodge...
Last summer eleven of the leading universities and colleges in the U. S. (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Chicage, Stanford, California, Louisiana State, Delaware, Lafayette, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology) were invited by the French government to send representatives for a two weeks sojourn in Paris for the purpose of festering more cordial France - American relations...