Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Nields was born in Wilmington in 1868, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1892. His father was a captain of Delaware artillery in the Civil War. As Federal District Attorney in 1906, John Nields helped snuff out the Louisiana Lottery, whose printing offices were in Wilmington. He raided the lottery office, destroyed, among other things, complete samples of every kind of lottery ticket sold at that time in the U. S. and England. Because he is a devoted antiquarian, and avid student of Americana, this act of destruction must have been one of life's hardest tasks...
Blustering Huey Long is on the front page again. Apparently such events as the washroom black eye will not dampen an unquenchable thirst to be before the public eye. Now the Senator from Louisiana bombastically attacks General Johnson for the benefit of Randolph Hearst's news hawks, and much to the delight of the Reverend Father Coughlin...
...solidly opposed to Roosevelt until the latter's nomination seemed a foregone conclusion in the Democratic convention. It must be realized that the good Father's flock of some millions are not by any means entirely Catholic. And it cannot be overlooked that the loud little man from Louisiana, who has sworn off liqour, is popular with the millions of American voters who like the "old fashioned" methods of oratory. He himself has boasted that it would not take him long with his sound trucks to show the people of America that Huey Long is no fool...
...religion" in reference to Father Coughlin, or another "Pied-Piper (Huey Long) tootling on a penny whistle," all the while mixing his idioms in a grandiloquent style that is the despair of professional comedians. The newspapers also provide farcial tilts, with the highly electric crackles of the buffoon from Louisiana alternating with the heavy artillery of Senator Robinson. The wonder is that the professional comedians don't unionize in an attempt to preserve their interests and send a lobby to Congress...
Hunting for "reels" and "sinful songs," Mr. Lomax found that the penitentiaries were the most fruitful places. He took a recording of one of Lead Belly's musical pleas for pardon to Governor O. K. Allen of Louisiana and a month later the darky got a pardon...